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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe7d776 | There are great days ahead! | James Herriot | ||
| 0d07958 | My mind went back to my school-days and an old gentleman talking to the class about careers. He had said: "If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety." I laughed aloud in the darkness and as I got into the car I was still chuckling. That old chap certainly wasn't kidding. Variety. That was it--variety." | James Herriot | ||
| 05c5c31 | clear-skinned | James Herriot | ||
| bc7dc90 | After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then. It was a dull, empty ache which never really went away. | James Herriot | ||
| f4159d9 | back of the tongue and into the mouth, and when it came within | James Herriot | ||
| 591200e | felt drained. Watching the life of the | James Herriot | ||
| 7210118 | The two of us stood gazing at the gleaming rows without any idea that it was nearly all useless and that the days of the old medicines were nearly over. Soon they would be hustled into oblivion by the headlong rush of the new discoveries and they would never return. | James Herriot | ||
| e363d65 | Sometimes in our job you feel you just can't win. If you take too long you're no good, if you're too quick the visit wasn't necessary. | James Herriot | ||
| a18349e | It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I | James Herriot | ||
| c79b94a | As I trailed dumbly up the next flight it seemed strange that we had never said goodbye. We didn't know when, if ever, we would see each other again yet neither of us had said a word. I don't know if Siegfried wanted to say anything but there was a lot try trying to burst from me. I wanted to thank him for being a friend as well as a boss, for teaching me so much, for never letting me down. There were other things, too, but I never said th.. | James Herriot | ||
| 14e565c | Caution is often a virtue, but in your case you carry it too far. It's a little flaw in your character and it shows in a multitude of ways. In your wary approach to problems in your work for instance, you are always too apprehensive, proceeding fearfully step by step when you should be plunging boldly ahead. You keep seeing dangers when there aren't any, you've got to learn to take a chance, to lash out a bit. As it is, you are confined to .. | James Herriot | ||
| 2755706 | Animals are unpredictable things so our whole 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 | ||
| ad1cff3 | Cuando todo el mundo sigue por un camino, yo cojo el otro. | James Herriot | ||
| 149f864 | This time, the seat went over quicker than usual and I hurtled backwards, coming to rest with my head among some Wellingtons and my knees tucked underneath my chin. A row of surprised faces peered in at me through the back window, but soon, willing hands were helping me up and the trick seat was placed upright on its rockers again. I wondered how long it had been like that and if my employer had ever thought of having it fixed. We | James Herriot | ||
| 425b021 | hold of a cow's nose for me he would say solemnly | James Herriot | ||
| fa2a4f7 | When they rolled into Darrowby in the small hours most of the occupants of the bus were unconscious. | James Herriot | ||
| 58122bd | Well, I had fallen down on the job and an octogenarian farmer had wiped my eye with two gallons of strong ale. I didn't feel great. | James Herriot | ||
| 01b6209 | onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. 'Now then,' he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years, yet still managed | James Herriot | ||
| 558e47b | when things weren't going well he carried on long muttered conversations with himself, but when he was particularly pleased about something he was inclined to break into a loud, tuneless humming. | James Herriot | ||
| 0c24475 | That ewe's life had been saved not by medicinal therapy but simply by stopping her pain and allowing nature to do its own job of healing. It was a lesson I have never forgotten; the animals confronted with severe continuous pain and the terror and shock that goes with it will often retreat even into death, and if you can remove that pain amazing things can happen. It is difficult to explain rationally but I know that it is so. | James Herriot | ||
| 4ca072f | He must have kicked the door open because it flew back viciously against the rubber stop and rebounded almost into his face. | James Herriot | ||
| e4cba90 | Often, too, they would slip half a | James Herriot | ||
| fc88a3a | Bernard's had 'is hand | James Herriot | ||
| 1d1a318 | nearly mad before you cleaned | James Herriot | ||
| 9804fa5 | Then the nose moved along the rubber tube up to the bottle and back again, sniffing with the utmost concentration. When I removed the needle the nose began a careful inspection of the injection site. Then a tongue appeared and began to lick the bullock's neck methodically. I squatted back on my heels and watched. This was something more than mere curiosity; everything in the dog's attitude suggested intense interest and concern. | James Herriot | ||
| 9b378fc | came in elegant white cartons, so much more impressive than | James Herriot | ||
| c541255 | boric acid. | James Herriot | ||
| f38d692 | Now then, young man," he cried in the nasal twang of the West Riding. "I'm Mr. Dinsdale's brother. I farm over in Listondale." I put down my equipment and nodded. "How do you do? My name is Herriot." | James Herriot | ||
| 8a7cfa5 | Uncle was aghast. "You don't know him! Well you're the only one as doesn't. They think the world of him in Listondale, I can tell you." He lapsed into a shocked silence and applied a match to his pipe." | James Herriot | ||
| 53c8fe9 | 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 of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning. | James Herriot | ||
| 57ebb80 | I had discovered something, discovered something by accident. That ewe's life had been saved not by medicinal therapy but simply by stopping her pain and allowing nature to do its own job of healing. It was a lesson I have never forgotten; that animals confronted with severe continuous pain and the terror and shock that goes with it will often retreat even into death, and if you can remove that pain amazing things can happen. It is difficul.. | James Herriot | ||
| 46b0059 | Chapter | James Herriot | ||
| 0d4f075 | I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then. | James Herriot | ||
| 3f9838c | mind. So much for Herriot as a judge of character. I couldn't have been more wrong, but Paul had fought his secret battle with a courage which had deceived everybody. | James Herriot | ||
| 313fc24 | 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. | James Herriot | ||
| caee277 | In fact I think the Gods love people like Tristan who sway effortlessly before the winds of fate and spring back with a smile, looking on life always with blithe optimism. | James Herriot | ||
| 5ea98d3 | Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. | James Herriot | ||
| cc05e74 | great waves seemed to billow from him - impatience, frustration, criticism, irritation. | James Herriot | ||
| b51579a | Northern Pennines. | James Herriot | ||
| 423f405 | as long as a man can pay 'is way, he's got enough. | James Herriot | ||
| ea517a4 | An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave. | dark ominous | Sara Sheridan | |
| 2f061cf | He didn't look as if he'd been through a whirlwind exactly but he'd certainly endured a stiff breeze. | breeze humour messy untidy whirlwind | Sara Sheridan | |
| 4130aac | thm lzm wld~ lSmt wqd bdt `ynh mn`zltyn. kn y`rf m hw 'b`d mn hdh l`lm lwq`~, km kn... w`yan l`lm akhr ystTy` ln`zl fyh Hyth l ymkn lwSwl lyh fyh. lm ykn ld~ sw~ sh`wr mbhm `n mmlk@ hdh l`lm lakhr lmslm, ldh~ yj`l lmr qdran `l~ dfn l'Sdq wymknh m` dhlk ltHdth m` lnwt~ `n m`jzt jzr tshrdshw~. Trqt bb hdh l`lm wlkn lm yusmH l~ bldkhwl, fqd kntu shdyd lnhmk f~ wq`n lmw'lm. | Kurban Said | ||
| 71ec9f2 | Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans. | imagination | Kurban Said |