Evan Ross Quotes

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.

I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.

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

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

I am a reflection of my mother.

When I first became a mother, I didn't want my son to have any extra exposure to what I did. I had this theory that if he wanted to do what I do for a living, it should be organic and come from him, not from the fact that this was just what he saw all the time.

I'm not as tough as my Dad.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?