Quotes & Sayings About Home Laura Ingalls Wilder

The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides. — George Polya

Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home with the home folks, she was sure. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Home is the nicest word there is. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day. — Karl Marx

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table. — Charlie Manuel

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great! — Amanda Stott

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can. — E'yen A. Gardner

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, Home is the nicest place there is. — Kenneth Eade

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. — John Irving

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself. — Sophie Ristelhueber

I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here. — Alwyn Hamilton

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are — Jeannette Walls

A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. — Richard Wright

There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world. — Chelsea Clinton

Consul', remarked the detective, dogmatically, 'great robbers always resemble honest folks. — Julius Verne

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short. — Laura Ingalls Wilder