Animal Quotes by James Herriot

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of…

— James Herriot

“I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man with a lot of animals couldn't…

— James Herriot

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

— James Herriot

“... a bullock, backing in alarm from the halter, crashed its craggy behind into my midriff. The wind shot out of me in a…

— James Herriot

“You know, Mrs Pumphrey, you're overfeeding him again. Didn't I tell you to cut out all those pieces of cake and give him more…

— James Herriot

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be…

— James Herriot

“But Siegfried held up a restraining hand. “Just one moment,” he slurred. “The windscreen is very dirty. I’ll give it a rub for you.”…

— James Herriot

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

— James Herriot

“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…

— James Herriot

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

— James Herriot

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep…

— James Herriot

“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

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…

— James Herriot

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

— James Herriot

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

— James Herriot