Bill Cosby Quotes

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there.

I believe that you need your parents the most. That's the most important thing.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

I like stories that affect families.

I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.

I'm a mama's boy.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

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

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.