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Top 90 James Herriot Quotes (2024 Update)

James Herriot Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
James Herriot Quote: “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
James Herriot Quote: “No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat...”
James Herriot Quote: “And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly.”
James Herriot Quote: “I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.”
James Herriot Quote: “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 Quote: “I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.”
James Herriot Quote: “This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I’d had more of books, but he had more of learning.”
James Herriot Quote: “I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.”
James Herriot Quote: “It was to a moribund horse, and Mr. Sidlow, describing the treatment to date, announced that he had been pushing raw onions up the horse’s rectum; he couldn’t understand why it was so uneasy on its legs. Siegfried had pointed out that if he were to insert a raw onion in Mr. Sidlow’s rectum, he, Mr. Sidlow, would undoubtedly be uneasy on his legs.”
James Herriot Quote: “I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can’t remember what happened a couple of days ago.”
James Herriot Quote: “I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.”
James Herriot Quote: “I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.”
James Herriot Quote: “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 Quote: “They can’t find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.”
James Herriot Quote: “There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn’t fall, I started to consider retiring.”
James Herriot Quote: “And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress.”
James Herriot Quote: “Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.”
James Herriot Quote: “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 Quote: “If I had been a little dog I’d have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”
James Herriot Quote: “All young animals are appealing but the lamb has been given an unfair share of charm.”
James Herriot Quote: “For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.”
James Herriot Quote: “As I say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark: “Old Herriot may be limited in many respects but by God he can wrap a cat.” As.”
James Herriot Quote: “Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera.”
James Herriot Quote: “If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn’t care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.”
James Herriot Quote: “Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler – like coalmining or lumberjacking.”
James Herriot Quote: “When all t’world goes one road, I go t’other.”
James Herriot Quote: “AS I CRAWLED INTO bed and put my arm around Helen it occurred to me, not for the first time, that there are few pleasures in this world to compare with snuggling up to a nice woman when you are half frozen.”
James Herriot Quote: “Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.”
James Herriot Quote: “Now then, young man,” he cried in the nasal twang of the West Riding. “I’m Mr. Dinsdale’s brother. I farm over in Listondale.” I put down my equipment and nodded. “How do you do? My name is Herriot.”
James Herriot Quote: “He loved the stuff. But unfortunately he couldn’t say “Propamidine.” In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only thought he could say it. He called it “Propopamide” but his lordship had the utmost faith in him.”
James Herriot Quote: “Old Herriot may be limited in some respects, but by God, he can wrap a cat.”
James Herriot Quote: “He was polishing the glass with a dead hen.”
James Herriot Quote: “I can’t bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.”
James Herriot Quote: “In fact I think the Gods love people like Tristan who sway effortlessly before the winds of fate and spring back with a smile, looking on life always with blithe optimism.”
James Herriot Quote: “My mind went back to my school-days and an old gentleman talking to the class about careers. He had said: “If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.” I laughed aloud in the darkness and as I got into the car I was still chuckling. That old chap certainly wasn’t kidding. Variety. That was it – variety.”
James Herriot Quote: “There are great days ahead!”
James Herriot Quote: “She’s out, Jim! The bugger’s out!” Well this was great. Anybody who has driven a car with a hysterical cat hurtling around the interior will appreciate my situation.”
James Herriot Quote: “I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.”
James Herriot Quote: “Me dad used to say a strange dog would allus get a cow up.” There were murmurs of assent from the assembled farmers and immediate offers of dogs. I tried to point out that one would be enough but my authority had dwindled and anyway everybody seemed anxious to demonstrate their dogs’ cow-raising potential. There.”
James Herriot Quote: “This time, the seat went over quicker than usual and I hurtled backwards, coming to rest with my head among some Wellingtons and my knees tucked underneath my chin. A row of surprised faces peered in at me through the back window, but soon, willing hands were helping me up and the trick seat was placed upright on its rockers again. I wondered how long it had been like that and if my employer had ever thought of having it fixed. We.”
James Herriot Quote: “I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.”
James Herriot Quote: “What I didn’t notice was that the passenger seat was not fixed to the floor but stood freely on its sledge-like runners. I dropped into it and went over backwards, finishing with my head on the rear seat and my feet against the roof. Farnon helped me up, apologising with great charm, and we set off. Once.”
James Herriot Quote: “First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash – dead as a hammer. That’s when I started these grey hairs.”
James Herriot Quote: “Uncle was aghast. “You don’t know him! Well you’re the only one as doesn’t. They think the world of him in Listondale, I can tell you.” He lapsed into a shocked silence and applied a match to his pipe.”
James Herriot Quote: “I will write another book if I feel like it.”
James Herriot Quote: “There has always been a ‘and this is where I come in’ feeling about a night call. And as my lights swept the cobbles of the deserted market place it was there again, a sense of returning to fundamentals, of really being me.”
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