Richard Webber quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Webber

[to Meredith] She [Amelia] came to see you the night after the attack. She was drunk. She was upset because you called her for a consult that day, the day of the attack, and she the choice between coming to you and going to another trauma. She went to the other trauma because she was mad at you. Forgiveness is a powerful thing, Meredith. Not only to make the other person feel good, but to heal you. You need to forgive her, Meredith. Forgive her for not being Derek. For being the wrong Shepherd. Just enough to remind you of what's missing, but not enough to bring him back. That's not her fault. You need to forgive her. You don't have to like her. You don't have to love her. Look, forgive her, okay? So you can forgive Blake for being in that room when a wrong decision caused you your husband. To forgive Derek for dying too soon. To forgive yourself for hating him for dying too soon. Let it go, Meredith, and forgive.

Alex

[to Webber] We're all her family in here

Arizona

Richard, I owe you. I'm too young and too fun to spend the rest of my life alone, and I was too scared to try. But you helped me remember what it was like when I was open and confident and fun and a little slutty. You helped me be slutty again.

Webber

Well, I'm not sure I'd phrase it like that.

Arizona

You helped me fly. So... good job! Thank you.

Meredith

I tell my children, "When you're finished with yours toys, put them away."

Webber

Good morning.

Meredith

My kids don't need to see your penis, so the same goes for you.

Owen

Meredith, please.

Webber

There was a time where I would have asked, but I've learned.

Arizona

I just want to lie down. I should, because I'm gonna lose this fight. I'm putting up a losing fight. This is just gonna hurt Sofia and it's going to end with me losing my little girl anyway, because that woman is watching me be a terrible doctor and a terrible mother. Maybe I am? Today, I feel like both.

Webber

If you want your daughter, you're going to have to fight like you've never fought before. You are going to have to stand up for yourself and believe you deserve it. You want to lie down? You don't get to.

Webber

We need to discuss the options.

Meredith

No we don't.

Webber

Why not?

Meredith

Because you also have the Chief of General Surgery in here, Dr. Webber, and I outrank you.

Meredith

Have you always done that with your mother?

Webber

I didn't used to. Back then, I was trained to depersonalize the patient. Tissue was tissue, faces were covered, and blood was a mess on the floor. We were to stay focused, and our hands were just inside mannequins.

Meredith

So, what changed?

Webber

One afternoon, I was in the OR, and we lost a patient on the table, and I went along to inform the family, you know, tell them the horrible news, and I was numb. I watched them sob and hold each other and it didn't affect me, at all. That patient died from the same thing my mother died from, and I was a robot. After that, I started changing the rules, and it made me a better surgeon.

Meredith

You've saved her now, about 1,000 times.

Webber

I suppose.

Bailey

I made a decision about what is best for the hospital moving forward, and I didn't want my personal feelings, my very strong personal feelings to get in the way of that decision. If I do that, I won't be able to do this job.

Webber

Bailey, we reach into people's bodies and hold their lives and their futures in our hands. There's nothing more personal than this job, in how we treat a patient, in how we raise our doctors and teach them how to do this work. Every decision that you make should be a personal one. If it isn't, then you have no business being chief.

Ben

Why doesn't hockey just ban the fighting?

Eliza

Are you kidding? It's part of the game, the good part. You got to shake up the other team or get your own team going.

Richard

Garth is the enforcer. Now, his job is to go in and take out the skills player, upset the other team. Seems he's pretty good at it.

Eliza

Fights can be strategic, too. A fight can change momentum, clear the air, break a stalemate.

Richard

It also rallies the team against a common enemy.

Ben

Well, this is fascinating. And I thought I was just gonna learn about surgery.

Eliza

Oh, no, Dr. Warren, it's me who's being schooled tonight. Isn't that why you allowed me into an OR?

Richard

I just wanted to see how you deal with a Dr. Webber.

Eliza

You don't want to have this fight, sir. Someone always tries to, and they always get on board or get left behind.

Richard

You said fighting is the good part, right? Well, I hope you meant it.

Richard

You know I was always a fine surgeon. But I am an excellent teacher, and today I was complete failure. I know you thought this program had problems, but it sure as hell has them now.

Catherine

Richard--

Richard

Bailey was my favorite student. I brought her in as an intern. I saw her all the way through to chief. She was my start to finish. And you turned her against me.

Webber

We both know that your mother would never put me before her career

Meredith

True. But I'm supposed to do better than her. Isn't that the point? Be better. I can't be like her.

Webber

Go get your job.

Richard

Diane, you don't have to keep putting yourself through this. Not if you don't want to.

I was born in a two-room shed with an outhouse, six brothers, not a lot of food or love or anything. Getting out of there was... When that social worker put this little baby in my arms, when I looked down at my Maggie... Maggie's the universe giving me a gift. She is a happy person. She's cheerful. Maggie is rare. She's special. This will give her darkness. How can I do that to the most special person in the whole world? When I die, she needs to know that she did everything that she could.

Richard

Diane, she has. Maggie's done everything there is to do.

I can't stop. I can't do that to her.

Richard

She can take it. You may not see it because you've known her since she was a little girl. I mean, I didn't. I only know the woman you raised. And that woman is smart, and strong as iron, especially for the people she loves. Now, well... now I see where she gets it.

I don't want to die.

Jo

Okay, um, so, what would you do now if you were me?

Meredith

Oh. I would, um, be proud of myself.

Jo

Okay, that’s not what I was-

Meredith

I’m proud of you, Wilson.

Jo

Okay

Richard

Um, is everything alright, Dr. Wilson?

Jo

Dr. Grey is creeping me out!

Maggie

She’s my mom. Miranda Bailey is my mom.

[to Richard] You’re her husband?

Richard

No, but she’s [Maggie] my daughter.

Maggie

He’s married to my mom, Miranda Bailey.