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
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
Laura Ingalls Wilder: 29 quotes12 likes

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.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"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.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Letter to children (February 1947) http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/letter.html <br class="br">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&#x27;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.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie

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 no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book Little Town on the Prairie

Source: Little Town on the Prairie

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

“Never bet your money on another man's game.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book Farmer Boy

Source: Farmer Boy

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder book The Long Winter

Source: The Long Winter

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