Eve Jihan Jeffers Quotes

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

My parents are very similar to me.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives.

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.

I always wanted to be like my dad.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.