Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Guys standing around and talking about Spanish fly: 'You know anything about Spanish fly?' 'No, tell me about it.' Well there's this girl Crazy… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
God has a sense of humor though and he must see funny things in us. He must also have some love. We're still here… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
