Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

They change their sky but not their soul who cross the ocean.

I've been going to Florida since I was a baby.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I was born in '57, so during the winters when I was growing up, we were ice skating in people's yards, and school got cancelled sometimes for snow days - I have these good memories.

Journey is my life now.

When you leave home, then you leave with the possibility of not returning.

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

The road is better than the inn.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.