"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."

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Source : James Herriot (2011). “Every Living Thing”, p.7, Open Road Media

James Herriot

#Morning Quotes #Spring Quotes #Wind Quotes

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”
“It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they would have to be moved at three feet per second. Only a fool would expect such a thing to be realized.”
“No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.”

Source : "The secret scandal of Britain's caste system" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.
“I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.”
“Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.”
“Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.”
“I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.”
“When people show you who they are ... believe them!”

Source : "How you know you're in 'Shondaland'" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2014.

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