Quotes from Farmer Boy

“Never bet your money on another man's game.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“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.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“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”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“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.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“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.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“This country goes three thousand miles west, now. It goes ’way out beyond Kansas, and beyond the Great American Desert, over mountains bigger than these mountains, and down to the Pacific Ocean. It’s the biggest country in the world, and it was farmers who took all that country and made it America, son. Don’t you ever forget that.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“I dare you to ask him,” Frank said. The other boys were listening. Almanzo put his hands in his pockets and said: “I’d just as lief ask him if I wanted to.” “Yah, you’re scared!” Frank jeered. “Double dare! Double dare!”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Popcorn is American. Nobody but the Indians ever had popcorn, till after the Pilgrim Fathers came to America. On”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Down a long road through the woods a little boy trudged to school, with his big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. Royal was thirteen years old, Eliza Jane was twelve, and Alice was ten. Almanzo was the youngest of all, and this was his first going-to-school, because he was not quite nine years old.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Then Father said: “If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I’ll give you a thrashing you’ll remember.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“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.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Cattle did not have to be led to water. They came eagerly to the trough and drank while Almanzo pumped, then they hurried back to the warm barns, and each went to its own place. Each cow turned into her own stall and put her head between her own stanchions. They never made a mistake.
Whether this was because they had more sense than horses, or because they had so little sense that they did everything by habit, Father did not know.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“Almanzo knew that in the whole world there was nothing so beautiful, so fascinating, as beautiful horses. When he thought that it would be years and years before he could have a little colt to teach and take care of, he could hardly bear it.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

“It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, quote from Farmer Boy

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