--- title: "16 Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 16 Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Laura Ingalls Wilder sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/eleanor-brown-9492_childhood-favorites_bean-felt-a-rush-of-sweet-nostalgia-for_2660221.jpg" --- > [“Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-brown/bean-felt-a-rush-of-sweet-nostalgia-for-the-woman-who-had-introduced/) [Eleanor Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-brown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/eleanor-brown-9492_childhood-favorites_bean-felt-a-rush-of-sweet-nostalgia-for_2660221.jpg) > [When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonia-levitin/when-i-was-only-eleven-years-old-i-decided-to-become-a-writer-i-told/) [Sonia Levitin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonia-levitin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/sonia-levitin-63629_ambition_when-i-was-only-eleven-years-old-i-decid_458347.jpg) > [“But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I’d ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-gooch-hummer/but-the-truth-was-that-laura-ingalls-wilder-was-the-nicest-girl-i-d/) [Jennifer Gooch Hummer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-gooch-hummer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/jennifer-gooch-hummer-17425_truth_but-the-truth-was-that-laura-ingalls-wil_3223516.jpg) > [Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-ingalls-wilder/persons-appear-to-us-according-to-the-light-we-throw-upon-them-from/) [Laura Ingalls Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-ingalls-wilder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/laura-ingalls-wilder-3466_books_persons-appear-to-us-according-to-the-li_2821998.jpg) > [Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-pinkney/receiving-both-the-coretta-scott-king-virginia-hamilton-award-for/) [Jerry Pinkney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-pinkney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b29/jerry-pinkney-22586_achievement_receiving-both-the-coretta-scott-king-vi_111602.jpg) > [Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-fraser/between-the-fictional-laura-of-the-books-and-the-even-more-heavily/) [Caroline Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-fraser/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/caroline-fraser-24135_books_between-the-fictional-laura-of-the-books_1060962.jpg) > [“Mary made him lie down in the middle of the stage. Then she started singing, “Everything’s all right, yes, everything’s fine …”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-gooch-hummer/mary-made-him-lie-down-in-the-middle-of-the-stage-then-she-started/) [Jennifer Gooch Hummer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-gooch-hummer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19b/jennifer-gooch-hummer-17425_best-friend_mary-made-him-lie-down-in-the-middle-of_2186927.jpg) > [“Laura Ingalls Wilder should have been in class with us, too. With friends like us, she never would have had to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-gooch-hummer/laura-ingalls-wilder-should-have-been-in-class-with-us-too-with/) [Jennifer Gooch Hummer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-gooch-hummer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/jennifer-gooch-hummer-17425_every-single-day_laura-ingalls-wilder-should-have-been-in_2473251.jpg) > [“Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. - Margaret Wise Brown Home is the nicest word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-jio/everything-that-anyone-would-ever-look-for-is-usually-where-they-find/) [Sarah Jio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-jio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/sarah-jio-8851_home_everything-that-anyone-would-ever-look-f_1637749.jpg) > [When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-offerman/when-i-was-a-kid-i-lived-in-this-small-town-way-out-in-the-country-we/) [Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-offerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/nick-offerman-2326_aunt_when-i-was-a-kid-i-lived-in-this-small-t_2679327.png) > [I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-read-a-lot-of-fantasy-i-adored-anne-of-green-gables-but-my/) [Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/819/tracy-chevalier-7345_19th-century_i-read-a-lot-of-fantasy-i-adored-anne-of_1911442.jpg) > [1 - 2 A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-ingalls-wilder/1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfathers-and-grandmothers-of/) [Laura Ingalls Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-ingalls-wilder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/laura-ingalls-wilder-3466_aunts-and-uncles_1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfa_440022.jpg) > [“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grann/the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-government-that-their-kansas/) [David Grann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/david-grann-2569_little-house-on-the_the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-go_2845819.jpg) > [“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-classic-series-little-house-lived/) [Ryan Holiday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-holiday/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/ryan-holiday-514_books_laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-class_1708792.jpg) > [“Though Wilder blamed her family’s departure from Kansas on “blasted politicians” ordering white squatters to vacate Osage lands, no such edict was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-miller/though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-departure-from-kansas-on-blasted/) [Sarah Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/sarah-miller-16942_family_though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-depart_2741768.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-miller/author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of-fact-and-laura-ingalls-wilder/) [Sarah Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/sarah-miller-16942_books_author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of_688624.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/laura-ingalls-wilder/#itemlist", "name": "Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. 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But my favourite books as a child were probably…” — Tracy Chevalier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "1 - 2 A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura Ingalls Wilder But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. Laura Ingalls Wilder Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. Laura Ingalls Wilder Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. Laura Ingalls Wilder Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself cou", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laura Ingalls Wilder" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-ingalls-wilder/1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfathers-and-grandmothers-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/laura-ingalls-wilder-3466_aunts-and-uncles_1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfa_440022.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/laura-ingalls-wilder-3466_aunts-and-uncles_1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfa_440022.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/laura-ingalls-wilder-3466_aunts-and-uncles_1-2-a-long-time-ago-when-all-the-grandfa_440022.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“1 - 2 A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls…” — Laura Ingalls Wilder", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they were under siege from settlers. Among them was the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who later wrote Little House on the Prairie based on her experiences. “Why don’t you like Indians, Ma?” Laura asks her mother in one scene. “I just don’t like them; and don’t lick your fingers, Laura.” “This is Indian country, isn’t it?” Laura said. “What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?” One evening, Laura’s father explains to her that the government will soon make the Osage move away: “That’s why we’re here, Laura. White people are going to settle all this country, and we get the best land because we get here first and take our pick.” Though, in the book, the Ingallses leave the reservation under threat of being removed by soldiers, many squatters began to take the land by force. In 1870, the Osage—expelled from their lodges, their graves plundered—agreed to sell their Kansas lands to settlers for $1.25 an acre. Nevertheless, impatient settlers massacred several of the Osage, mutilating their bodies and scalping them. An Indian Affairs agent said, “The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Grann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grann/the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-government-that-their-kansas/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/david-grann-2569_little-house-on-the_the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-go_2845819.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/david-grann-2569_little-house-on-the_the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-go_2845819.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/david-grann-2569_little-house-on-the_the-osage-had-been-assured-by-the-u-s-go_2845819.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home…” — David Grann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on the planet: harsh and unyielding soil, Indian territory, Kansas prairies, and the humid backwoods of Florida. Not afraid, not jaded—because she saw it all as an adventure. Everywhere was a chance to do something new, to persevere with cheery pioneer spirit whatever fate befell her and her husband. That isn’t to say she saw the world through delusional rose-colored glasses. Instead, she simply chose to see each situation for what it could be—accompanied by hard work and a little upbeat spirit. Others make the opposite choice. As for us, we face things that are not nearly as intimidating, and then we promptly decide we’re screwed. This is how obstacles become obstacles. In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles. There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. That’s a thought that changes everything, doesn’t it?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ryan Holiday" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-classic-series-little-house-lived/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/ryan-holiday-514_books_laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-class_1708792.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/ryan-holiday-514_books_laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-class_1708792.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/ryan-holiday-514_books_laura-ingalls-wilder-author-of-the-class_1708792.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the…” — Ryan Holiday", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Though Wilder blamed her family’s departure from Kansas on “blasted politicians” ordering white squatters to vacate Osage lands, no such edict was issued over Rutland Township during the Ingallses’ tenure there. Quite the reverse is true: only white intruders in what was known as the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma were removed to make way for the displaced Osages arriving from Kansas. (Wilder mistakenly believed that her family’s cabin was located forty—rather than the actual fourteen—miles from Independence, an error that placed the fictional Ingalls family in the area affected by the removal order.) Rather, Charles Ingalls’s decision to abandon his claim was almost certainly financial, for Gustaf Gustafson did indeed default on his mortgage. The exception: Unlike their fictional counterparts, the historical Ingalls family’s decision to leave Wisconsin and settle in Kansas was not a straightforward one. Instead it was the eventual result of a series of land transactions that began in the spring of 1868, when Charles Ingalls sold his Wisconsin property to Gustaf Gustafson and shortly thereafter purchased 80 acres in Chariton County, Missouri, sight unseen. No one has been able to pinpoint with any certainty when (or even whether) the Ingalls family actually resided on that land; a scanty paper trail makes it appear that they actually zigzagged from Kansas to Missouri and back again between May of 1868 and February of 1870. What is certain is that by late February of 1870 Charles Ingalls had returned the title to his Chariton County acreage to the Missouri land dealer, and so for simplicity’s sake I have chosen to follow Laura Ingalls Wilder’s lead, contradicting history by streamlining events to more closely mirror the opening chapter of Little House on the Prairie, and setting this novel in 1870, a year in which the Ingalls family’s presence in Kansas is firmly documented.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah Miller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-miller/though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-departure-from-kansas-on-blasted/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/sarah-miller-16942_family_though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-depart_2741768.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/sarah-miller-16942_family_though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-depart_2741768.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/sarah-miller-16942_family_though-wilder-blamed-her-family-s-depart_2741768.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Though Wilder blamed her family’s departure from Kansas on “blasted politicians” ordering white squatters to…” — Sarah Miller", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 only where the historical record stands in contradiction to her stories. Most prominently: Census records, as well as the Ingalls family Bible, demonstrate that Caroline Celestia Ingalls was born in Rutland Township, Montgomery County, Kansas on August 3, 1870. (Wilder, not anticipating writing a sequel to Little House in the Big Woods, set her first novel in 1873 and included her little sister. Consequently, when Wilder decided to continue her family’s saga by doubling back to earlier events, Carrie’s birth was omitted from Little House on the Prairie to avoid confusion.) No events corresponding to Wilder’s descriptions of a “war dance” in the chapter of Little House on the Prairie entitled “Indian War-Cry” are known to have occurred in the vicinity of Rutland Township during the Ingalls family’s residence there. Drum Creek, where Osage leaders met with federal Indian agents in the late summer of 1870 and agreed peaceably to sell their Kansas lands and relocate to present-day Oklahoma, was nearly twenty miles from the Ingalls claim. I have therefore adopted western scholar Frances Kay’s conjecture that Wilder’s family was frightened by the mourning songs sung by Osage women as they grieved the loss of their lands and ancestral graves in the days following the agreement. In this instance, like so many others involving the Osages, the Ingalls family’s reactions were entirely a product of their own deep prejudices and misconceptions.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah Miller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-miller/author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of-fact-and-laura-ingalls-wilder/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/sarah-miller-16942_books_author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of_688624.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/sarah-miller-16942_books_author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of_688624.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/sarah-miller-16942_books_author-s-note-caroline-is-a-marriage-of_688624.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Author’s Note Caroline is a marriage of fact and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fiction. 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