top of page
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Parenting quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When my son Nick was five years old, he was sitting at the kitchen bar while I prepared dinner. In typical busy mother fashion, I was multitasking-cooking, cleaning, running the laundry, answering the phone, and attempting to listen to what he had to say."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you."

Explore more quotes by Bill Cosby

Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
Quote_1.png
Bill Cosby
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
bottom of page