Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow.

That is the one missing link in my life. I wish I had spent more time with my children.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

Always remember your kid's name.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

My best creation is my children.