Bill Cosby Quotes

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!

The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids.

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Every child needs both parents.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.