Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Never bet your money on another man's game.”
“A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.”
“It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder”
“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 was farmers that took all that country and made it America.” “How?” Almanzo asked. “Well, son, the Spaniards were soldiers, and high-and-mighty gentlemen that only wanted gold. And the French were fur-traders, wanting to make quick money. And England was busy fighting wars. But we were farmers, son; we wanted the land. It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung on to their farms.”
“It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work.”
“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”
“You can fill a glass full to the brim with milk, and fill another glass of the same size brim full of popcorn, and then you can put all the popcorn kernel by kernel into the milk, and the milk will not run over. You cannot do this with bread. Popcorn and milk are the only two things that will go into the same place.”
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.”
“Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.”
“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
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Book Keywords:
revolution, memoir, little-house-on-the-prairie, history, nation, pride
