Patricia Briggs Quotes

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.

I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.

You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

Everybody in life says things at times that they regret.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

I'm a father. If my son jumped on a boy in a backyard, it would have been the worst mistake he made that day. And he'd have had to apologize to everybody.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.