Bill Cosby Quotes - Page 6

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

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.

The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.

God has a sense of humor though and he must see funny things in us. He must also have some love. We're still here and there are still great things that go on. There are great doctors who discover how to separate twins and how to put together a human being to walk again after it's said he won't. Those are all there as signs.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

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.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

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.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

You can not make everybody happy.