Charles Ingalls Quotes

“There’s no great loss without some small gain.”

“What’s a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”

“They were going to the Indian country. Pa said there were too many people in the Big Woods now.”

″‘I never heard a mockingbird sing so early,’ said Ma, and Pa answered, softly, ‘He is telling us good-by.‘”

″... Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.”

“I tell you Caroline, when we begin getting crops off this rich land of ours, we’ll be living like kings!”

″... where a light can’t live, I know I can’t. And I like to be safe when I can be. But all’s well that ends well.”

“He ran his hand through his hair so that it stood up even more wildly, and Ma burst out laughing. Then he hugged her, quilts and all.”

″... Pa caught Laura up in his safe, big hug. ‘We’re across the Mississippi!‘, he said, hugging her joyously. ‘How do you like that, little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?‘”

″... she knew that nothing could hurt her while Pa and Jack were there.”

“One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other’s words.”

“So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little house where she lived with her father and mother, her sister Mary and baby Carrie.”