Bill Cosby Quotes on Fathers (12 Quotes)

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk Why you ain't, Where you is . . . I blamed the kid, until I heard the mother talk. . . . And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's import

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father He doesn't know where anything is. You ask him to do something, he messes it up and your mother sends you go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house. He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and he knows someone will be coming soon to stop him.

Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a father to learn that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter miler, who's son now says, Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore unless I bring something to read.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.