229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

She liked the enormous sky and the winds, and the land that you couldn’t see to the end of. Everything was so free and big and splendid.

I declare, you eat more plums than you pick up,” Mary said. “I don’t either any such a thing,” Laura contradicted. “I pick up every plum I eat.

They didn’t say anything. Perhaps Mary felt sweet and good inside, but Laura didn’t. When she looked at Mary she wanted to slap her. So she dared not look at Mary again.

Pa promised that when they came to the West, Laura should see a papoose.

Oh, Charles!” Ma said. “What will we do?” Pa slumped down on a bench and said, “I don’t know.

The wings and the golden weather and the tang of frost in the mornings made Laura want to go somewhere. She did not know where. She wanted only to go.

We crossed the James River and in 20 minutes we reached the top of the bluffs on the other side. We all stopped and looked back at the scene and I wished for an artist’s hand or a poet’s brain or for even to be able to tell in good plain prose how beautiful it was. If I had been the Indians I wold have scalped more white folks before I ever would have left it.

In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. The.

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!