Bill Cosby Quotes

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.