Quotes By Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I was put in remedial everything.