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All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4) QUOTES

All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4) QUOTES

1 " back of the tongue and into the mouth, and when it came within "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

2 " 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 , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

3 " couldn’t be persuaded to part with him. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

4 " 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 , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

5 " 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 , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

6 " 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 them.
Come to think of it, I’ve never even thanked him for that fifty pounds…until now. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

7 " Looking back, I realise it was one of the bravest things I have ever done. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

8 " There have been times in my life when, confronted by black and hopeless circumstances, I have discovered in myself undreamed-of resources of courage and resolution. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

9 " It was all that was left of a man’s dream. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

10 " I looked again at the dog and saw in his eyes only a calm trust. Some dogs would have barked their heads off and soon been discovered, some would have become terrified and vicious, but this was one of the totally undemanding kind, the kind which had complete faith in people and accepted all their actions without complaint. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

11 " There wasn’t much of her, in fact she must have been one of the smallest women I have ever seen—around five feet high—but there was a core of steel in her. She had her own mind and her own way of doing things. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

12 " But I was beginning to realise that life was not a tidy little parcel at any time. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

13 " It was still quite early in the morning and perhaps I wasn’t feeling quite strong enough to have the evidence of my failure thrust before my eyes. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

14 " As if by instinct I made my way into the long marquee which housed the produce section. Surely among those quiet rows of vegetables I would find repose. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

15 " though they didn’t exactly draw their skirts aside they managed to convey their message. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

16 " All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895 "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

17 " the feeling of cold emptiness, of having nothing to offer, made the journey a misery. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

18 " a realisation of my blessings began to return when I slid into bed and Helen, instead of shrinking away from me as it would have been natural to do, deliberately draped her feet and legs over the human ice block that was her husband. The bliss was unbelievable. It was worth getting out just to come back to this. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

19 " It took me longer than I thought and it seemed to me that the calf was beginning to lose patience with me because when its head was forced out by the cow’s contractions we were eye to eye and I fancied the little creature was giving me a disgusted “For heaven’s sake get on with it” look. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)

20 " To say I had a hangover next morning would be failing even to hint at the utter disintegration of my bodily economy and personality. Only somebody who had consumed two or three quarts of assorted home made wines at a sitting could have an inkling of the quaking nausea, the raging inferno within, the jangling nerves, the black despairing outlook. "

― James Herriot , All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)