The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
BILL COSBYGive me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
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A grandchild is God’s reward for raising a child.
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don’t want to see the dog doing them.
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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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And so the dentist says ‘Rinse.’ So you lean over, and you’re lookin’ at this miniature toilet bowl.
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I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
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It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.
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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.
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Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.
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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.
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