Famous Quotes by 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.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so are our lives with them.

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.

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially in the Yorkshire winter.

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

How pleasant it is at the end of a day to sit with a cat on your knee and to gaze into the fire while sipping a cup of tea and listening to the radio.

You can’t expect to learn everything from books. You've got to get out into the world and experience it.

The warmth and softness of a newly-born lamb has to be one of the most comforting things in the world.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

If only they could talk, how we would suffer.

The great thing about the countryside is that nothing really changes, the seasons go round and round.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

I could see all too clearly that the wide-open spaces, so dear to farmers, were fast vanishing.

You don’t love animals for what they are, you love them because they aren’t human.

I am more comfortable with farm animals than with people.

The best part of the job is the pleasure of seeing my patients get well.

It is a fact of life that animals don’t let go of life until they are ready.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Sometimes, our greatest treasures are found in the simplest things.

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