James Herriot Quotes
"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
(Related: March, Spring, Wind)
"I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box."
- James Herriot
"I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside."
- James Herriot
(Related: People, Animals)
"For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents."
- James Herriot
(Related: Funny, Wife, Years)
"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
(Related: People, Hope, Animals, Care, Needs, Will)
"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
- James Herriot
(Related: Fact, Writing)
"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
(Related: Love, Cats, Faces)
"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
- James Herriot
(Related: Cats, Comfort)
"They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live."
- James Herriot
(Related: Now, Quiet)
"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
(Related: Help, Old)
"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
(Related: Love, Gratitude, Soul, Animals, Being, Loyalty)
"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."
- James Herriot
(Related: Care)
"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."
- James Herriot
(Related: Trust, People, Animals, Children)
"I will write another book if I feel like it."
- James Herriot
(Related: Will)
"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
(Related: Memory, Years)