James Herriot Quotes

• Si tener alma significa ser capaz de sentir amor, lealtad y gratitud, entonces los animales están mejor que muchos humanos.

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  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Animal, Unpredictable Things, Long

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• Si tener alma significa ser capaz de sentir amor, lealtad y gratitud, entonces los animales están mejor que muchos humanos. Espero que la gente se dé cuenta de lo totalmente indefensos que están los animales, de lo dependientes que son de nosotros, de que confían como un niño en que seremos amables y atenderemos sus necesidades... [son] una obligación que se nos ha impuesto, una responsabilidad que no tenemos derecho a descuidar ni a violar con crueldad.

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  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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

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  Rich, Endless, Interest

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Espero que la gente se dé cuenta de lo totalmente indefensos que están los animales, de lo dependientes que son de nosotros, confiando como debe confiar un niño en que seremos amables y atenderemos sus necesidades.

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  Children, Animal, People

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• No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

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  Cat, Animal, Judging

  James Herriot (2012). “James Herriot's Dog Stories”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

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

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  Too Much, Staring, Standing

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Silence, Emptiness, Moors

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Children, Animal, People

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Luxury, Up Early

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• Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

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  Cat, Pet, Comfort

  James Herriot (2012). “Vet in Harness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

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  Dog, Giving, Training

  James Herriot (2012). “The Lord God Made Them All: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.246, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Animal, People, Dump

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Writing, Holiday

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. 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.

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  Cat, Pride, Black And White

  James Herriot (2011). “Three James Herriot Classics: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful”, p.877, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Morning, Sunshine, Hanging On

  James Herriot (2011). “All Creatures Great and Small”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

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  Dog, Tails, Gone

  James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Morning, Too Much, Staring

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Father, Simple

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Couple, Memories, Years

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

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  Writing, Thinking, Facts

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• 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.

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  Dog, Years, Tails

  James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Nunca estoy en mi mejor momento por la mañana temprano, especialmente una mañana fría en la primavera de Yorkshire, con un penetrante viento de marzo que desciende de las colinas, se abre paso entre mi ropa y me pellizca la nariz y las orejas.

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  Morning, Spring, Wind

  James Herriot (2011). “Every Living Thing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Retirement, Fall, Animal

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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