Bill Cosby Quotes

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.
Bill Cosby

Long, Two, Proud

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

Family, Brother, Older

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

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

God, Hair, Gray

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

Future, Past, Dream

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.
Bill Cosby

Music, Time, Nothing

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.
Bill Cosby

Friend, Remember, Put

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.
Bill Cosby

Business, Wisdom, Mistakes

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby

Become, Won, Senile

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby

Live, Together, After

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.
Bill Cosby

Parents, Point, Yelling

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.'
Bill Cosby

Success, Fool, Person

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
Bill Cosby

Faith, Lost, Battle

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.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, American

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

Future, Goal, Violence

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
Bill Cosby

Love, Person, Try

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

Parenting, Truth, Justice

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

Work, Today, Danger

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.
Bill Cosby

God, End, Thought

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

Time, Good, Wife

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
Bill Cosby

Mind, Person, Win

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.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Children, Learned

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.
Bill Cosby

Love, Luck, Authority

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.
Bill Cosby

Women, Men, Children

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Nationality: American

Born: July 12, 1937

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