Bill Cosby Quotes

I like my father being the boss in my life

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

I'm the father of four daughters.

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

This amendment would destroy parental authority and responsibility throughout America, would give irrevocable support to a rebellion of childhood would to which menace our civilization.

I don't think my father was my mentor.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.

My mom could be pretty strict.

My mother was top billing in our house.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.

Fatherhood is great.

I'm basically like a dad; I've always been a dad.

I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom, and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.