Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.During the 1970s and early 1980s, the television series Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on the Little House books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. February 1867 – 10. February 1957
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Works

The Long Winter
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy
Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Famous Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.”

Michael Landon, in Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Season 2, Ep 8 (5 November 1975) "Remember Me", Part 1
Misattributed

“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.”

Source: A Family Collection: Life on the Farm and in the Country, Making a Home; the Ways of the World, a Woman's Role

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes about life

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

"A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)

Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

Letter to children (February 1947) http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/letter.html
Context: The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.

“There's no great loss without some small gain.”

Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.

“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”

Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues

“No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.”

Source: The Long Winter

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