Bill Cosby Quotes (115 Quotes)

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

This happened to the people. The Constitution says 'of the people, by the people, for the people' . . . but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

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.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

I just felt wonderful about that. Just to erase all that mess about, 'Well, I'm either flipping burgers or doing drugs, you know, or getting shot.' You know, that kind of a thing,

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.

Take that money and build something you can see ... something for the children.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.