Quotes About Imperfect Parents

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

Cynthia Heimel

#2. I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Michael Redhill

#3. It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Rob Reiner

#4. If you want to freak someone out, don't ask them ... What's the least you can do?
Instead ask them ... What's the most you can do?

Jose N. Harris

#5. Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Brene Brown

#6. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

John Eldredge

#7. When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Samuel Butler

#8. There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

Frank Pittman

#9. 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

#10. There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

Jim Palmer