94 Quotes by James Herriot

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

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

Maybe ye don’t know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.’ ‘Do you think so?’ ‘Aye, there’s no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin’ up around ye—that’s when it’s best. It’s the same for everybody, only a lot o’ folk don’t know it and a lot find out when it’s too late. It doesn’t last long, you know.

Parents are never sure that they have done the right thing. They can only do what they think is right.

There has always been a 'and this is where I come in' feeling about a night call. And as my lights swept the cobbles of the deserted market place it was there again, a sense of returning to fundamentals, of really being me.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

There are great days ahead!

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

I only half realised at the time how lucky I was. I had a demanding, round-the-clock job, and yet I had the company of my children at the same time. So many men work so hard to keep the home going that they lose touch with the families who are at the heart of it, but it never happened to me. Both Jimmy and Rosie, until they went to school, spent most of their time with me round the farms.