Bill Cosby Quotes

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.

I'm the father of four daughters.

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

I have a big responsibility as a father. That helps me to be more sensible.

Now we've got a little daughter; me and the missus won't talk about football as much.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.