Bill Cosby Family Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

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.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

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

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.