List of James Herriot Quotes

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James Herriot
Total Quotes 31
They can't find my house now because i keep it very quiet where i live.
House Quiet
I will write another book if i feel like it.
Book Writing Feels
It was sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.
Morning Sunday Animal
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
Letters Nasty Boxes
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.
Retirement Fall Animal
For years i used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
Lunch Years Wife
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if i were george bernard shaw.
Animal Sick Care
I think it was the fact that i liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
Writing Thinking Facts
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.
Morning Spring Wind
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.
Dog Years Tails
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.
Couple Memories Years
And there was that letter from the bramleys—that really made me feel good. you don’t find people like the bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. there are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when i come across any of them i like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.
Lonely Father Simple
  • Born: October 3, 1916
  • Died: February 23, 1995
  • Occupation: Veterinary Surgeon
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