James Herriot Quotes

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot
That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

James Herriot
If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

James Herriot
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

James Herriot
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

James Herriot
I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

James Herriot
He was relaxed and smiling, the farmer and his helpers were smiling, even the cow was smiling. There was no dirt or blood or sweat anywhere.

James Herriot
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

James Herriot
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

James Herriot