I can’t negate the theory that the Huxtables on ‘The Cosby Show’ may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family. – Bill Cosby
Things are old. Parts are old. I’m talking about ‘us’ parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others. – Bill Cosby
I think I am a good running back, but I’m really not that fast. There is only one thing I can do, that is throw a cross-body block. Picture perfect. I love it. Not that good at pass blocking. – Bill Cosby
I want to get violence – I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don’t want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior – violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about. – Bill Cosby
What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they’re tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who’ve given up. – Bill Cosby
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn’t understand his use of profanity. He didn’t use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire. – Bill Cosby
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. – Bill Cosby
Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. – Bill Cosby
Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice. – Bill Cosby
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. – Bill Cosby
My feeling is, personally, I want to die first… because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment – and I don’t want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous. – Bill Cosby
God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us. – Bill Cosby
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made. – Bill Cosby
I use the exercise room early, because I don’t want to get on the treadmill and everyone’s going ‘Oh, Bill Cosby,’ and then they come around to see how fast I’m walking, and it becomes very competitive. – Bill Cosby
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don’t know what’s next. – Bill Cosby
Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn’t going to come along and cut your grass. – Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby
I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other. – Bill Cosby
I don’t think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I’d rather talk about the similarities, about what’s universal in their experiences. – Bill Cosby
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then… thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn’t want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn’t want to do that to my family. – Bill Cosby