Bill Cosby Quotes

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

I didn't know how to be a father.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.

Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

I have three kids, one of each.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

I like my father being the boss in my life