“Everybody was asleep. Everybody except me, James Herriot, creeping sore and exhausted towards another spell of hard labour. Why the hell had I ever decided to become a country vet? I must have been crazy to pick a job where… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 be expected to feel affection for individuals among them. But those buildings back there were full of John Skipton's animals - he must have hundreds. Yet what made him trail down that hillside every day in… — James Herriot Copy Share
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. — James Herriot Copy Share Image
“... 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly — James Herriot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
