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James Herriot Quotes

• 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.

• Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

• For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

• 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.

• 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.

• I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

• I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

• 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.

• 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... [They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

• 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.

• I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

• 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.

• I will write another book if I feel like it.

• I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

• If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

• Oh aye, he's womitin. Womitin bad, sorr.

• 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.

• They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

• Years ago, farmers were uneducated and eccentric and said funny things, and we ourselves were comparatively uneducated. We had no antibiotics, few drugs. A lot of time was spent pouring things down cows' throats. The whole thing added up to a lot of laughs. There's more science now, but not so many laughs.

 

James Herriot Career Highlight

Books

1970 - If Only They Could Talk
1972 - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
1973 - Let Sleeping Vets Lie
1974 - Vet in Harness
1976 - Vets Might Fly
1977 - Vet in a Spin
1979 - James Herriot's Yorkshire
1981 - The Lord God Made Them All
1992 - Every Living Thing
1994 - James Herriot's Cat Stories
1995 - James Herriot's Favourite Dog Stories
1997 - Lord, Graham, James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet, Headline

Other Works

1972 - All Creatures Great and Small
1974 - All Things Bright and Beautiful
1977 - All Things Wise and Wonderful
1982 - The Best of James Herriot
1984 - Moses the Kitten
1985 - Animal Stories: Tame And Wild
1985 - Only One Woof
1986 - James Herriot's Dog Stories
1986 - The Christmas Day Kitten
1987 - Bonny's Big Day
1988 - Blossom Comes Home
1989 - Collected James Herriot Vol.i
1989 - The Market Square Dog
1990 - All Creatures Great and Small
1990 - Oscar, Cat-About-Town
1991 - Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb
1991 - Smudge's Day Out
1992 - James Herriot Story Book
1995 - Seven Yorkshire Tales
1995 - Vet in Harness / Vet in a Spin / Vets Might Fly
1997 - Greatest Cat Stories
1997 - James Herriot's Animal Stories
1997 - James Herriot's Yorkshire Stories
1997 - Lord, Graham, James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet, Headline
1999 - All Things Wise and Wonderful / The Lord God Made Them All
1999 - James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited

Writer

1993 - James Herriot's Yorkshire: The Film
1975 - All Creatures Great and Small
1975 - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

Appearances

1993 - James Herriot's Yorkshire: The Film
1975 - Pebble Mill at One

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