Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

16 quotes from 12 authors

Laura Ingalls Wilder painted the American frontier with honest prose, and these 16 excerpts let that spirit linger. From prairie sunsets to family resilience, each line shows why her stories still feel fresh. If you love pioneer tales, also enjoy the American West page; lovers of 90s cartoons may explore the 90s Cartoons collection, and anyone craving girl‑power moments might explore the Girl Power anthology.

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Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have…

Jerry Pinkney

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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose…

Caroline Fraser

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“But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I’d ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a…

Jennifer Gooch Hummer

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“Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura…

Eleanor Brown

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When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura…

Sonia Levitin

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I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura…

Tracy Chevalier

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When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and…

Nick Offerman

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“Laura Ingalls Wilder should have been in class with us, too. With friends like us, she never would have had to put…

Jennifer Gooch Hummer

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“Mary made him lie down in the middle of the stage. Then she started singing, “Everything’s all right, yes, everything’s fine …”…

Jennifer Gooch Hummer

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“Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. - Margaret Wise Brown Home is the nicest word…

Sarah Jio

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“Author’s Note Caroline is a marriage of fact and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fiction. I have knowingly departed from Wilder’s version of events…

Sarah Miller

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“Though Wilder blamed her family’s departure from Kansas on “blasted politicians” ordering white squatters to vacate Osage lands, no such edict was…

Sarah Miller

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“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they…

David Grann

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1 - 2 A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or…

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on…

Ryan Holiday

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