James Herriot Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  James Herriot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

• I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

  James Herriot

  Children, Animal, People

• 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.

  James Herriot

  Children, Animal, People

• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. 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 ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

  James Herriot

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

• 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 like it to stick it.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Unpredictable Things, Long

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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

  James Herriot

  Animal, People, Dump

• It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Sunday, Animal

  James Herriot (2012). “Vet in Harness”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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

  James Herriot

  Animal, Sick, Care

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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

  James Herriot

  Cat, Animal, Judging

  James Herriot (2012). “James Herriot's Dog Stories”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  James Herriot

  Retirement, Fall, Animal

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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