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Bill Cosby Quotes

«Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.»
Author: Bill Cosby (Actor, Comedian, Producer) | About: Joy | Keywords: Father, joys, rewards
«Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.»
«A thought comes . . . it's a true feeling, a funny feeling. And I get to develop it. [Writing] is more fun than performing, because I get to color with words.»
«The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.»
Author: Bill Cosby (Actor, Comedian, Producer) | About: Goals | Keywords: addict, addicted, addicts, main, violence
«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.»
«I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.»
«In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.»
«What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.»
«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.»
«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.»

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