Little Town on the Prairie Quotes

“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“and she thought: God is America’s king. She thought: Americans won’t obey any king on earth. Americans are free. That means they have to obey their own consciences. No king bosses Pa; he has to boss himself. Why (she thought), when I am a little older, Pa and Ma will stop telling me what to do, and there isn’t anyone else who has a right to give me orders. I will have to make myself be good. Her whole mind seemed to be lighted up by that thought. This is what it means to be free. It means, you have to be good. “Our father’s God, author of liberty—” The laws of Nature and of Nature’s God endow you with a right to life and liberty. Then you have to keep the laws of God, for God’s law is the only thing that gives you a right to be free.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town On The Prairie

“Braille,”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“God is America’s king.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“Lost, between sunrise and sunset, One golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for it is gone forever.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“Mary turned. All around the bottom was”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“Mimosaceous,”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“All”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“Laura thought of Ma's saying, "It takes all kinds of people to make a world.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strangers. The less she thought of it the better, for she must go, and she must meet whatever happened as it came.
"Now Mary can have everting she needs, and she can come home this next summer," she said. "Oh, Pa, do you think I - I can teach school?"
"I do, Laura," said Pa. "I am sure of it.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“grown-up person must never let feelings be shown by voice or manner.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“Even Grace ran up and down the rows, screeching and waving her little sunbonnet.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie

“BIRTHDAY”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie