No Perfect Parents Quotes

#1. There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Dave Willis

#2. My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Valerie Jarrett

#3. Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#4. It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

Ardeth Kapp

#5. Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Cynthia Heimel

#6. My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.

George Clarke

#7. Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

Candice Olson

#8. I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

Summer Sanders

#9. I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

Beth Moore

#10. I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

Ann-Margret

#11. People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.

Derwin L. Gray

#12. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Stockwell Day

#13. Stephanie: I wouldn't mind a sister either
Tanith: Any chance of that happening?
Stephanie: I can't see what would be in it for my parents. I mean, they have the perfect daughter already - What more could they want?

Derek Landy

#14. American adult children, and I think most adult children, seem to believe that they are entitled to a perfect relationship with their parents and if it can't be perfect, if it is challenging in any way, then they are justified in abandonment because she/he is just too difficult to relate to.

Sharon Wildey

#15. It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

Odeya Rush

#16. I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Melanie Laurent

#17. It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

Gerard Way

#19. It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot ... or cosmic rays or a power ring ... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

Mark Millar

#20. His body was perfect. His parents were
loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl's
dream come true.

Elizabeth Nicole

#21. A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Dave Barry

#22. My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.

Andrea Jung

#23. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Tracy Guzeman

#24. I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

Dan O'Brien

#25. The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

Jonathan Dunne

#26. She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.

Jessie Burton

#27. And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.

Mike Birbiglia

#28. You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

Mary E. Pearson

#29. Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#30. I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#31. As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.

Robert J. Wiersema

#32. I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.

Justin Trudeau

#33. Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.

Michael Y. Simon

#34. Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.

Howard G. Hendricks

#35. In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Sara Sheridan

#36. All that children can properly require of their parents is that they tolerate their own muddled spectrum - that they neither insist on the lie of perfect happiness nor lapse into the slipshod brutality of giving up.

Andrew Solomon

#37. My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

Scott Stossel

#38. Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Frank Pittman

#39. We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!

Florence L. Barclay

#40. We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ...

Thomm Quackenbush

#41. My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Tim Burton

#42. The mistakes that I made I made because I drank too much. I don't think that's going to happen any more. Am I going to make mistakes as a parent? Sadly, every day. I'm looking around for the perfect parent and I haven't seen one yet.

Paula Poundstone

#43. I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

Mike Mills

#44. Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.

Monica Johnson