There's no great loss without some small gain.
It can't beat us! Pa said.Can't it, Pa? Laura asked stupidly.No, said Pa. It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up.Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very sm...
He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.
Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?
We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home.
Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being t...
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran r...
The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefather...
That machine's a great invention! he said. Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going...
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 yo...
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give...
All the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It...
She thought to herself, This is now. She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can nev...
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light, Ma considered. We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of.That's so, said Pa. These times...