Quotes from Bill Cosby

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Everybody is not a victim.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

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.

You come to my comedy show to be entertained.

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer.

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

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.

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.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

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

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.