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"15 James Herriot Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 October 1916. Died: 23 February 1995 | Veterinary surgeon | Writer |

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

Able Animals Being Better
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

Am Best Clothing Cold
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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.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

About Bore Funny Incidents
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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

Became Box Connoisseur Letter
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

Animals Could Dump People
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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.

Against Carefully Cats Cheek
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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.

About Because Holidays I Love
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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.

Automatically Come Fact I Think
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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.

Couple Days Even Happened
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
Another Book Feel I Feel
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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.

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

Animal Bernard Calls Care
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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.

Animal Consider Fall Farm
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
Because Find House Keep
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James Herriot Quotes & Sayings