Bill Cosby Quotes - Page 9

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.

We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.

If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know.

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.

It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.