Quotes By Bill Cosby

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

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.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

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

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.

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.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

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.

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

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

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

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

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

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.

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.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

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

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