Quote

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

Bill Cosby

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Cosby
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 12
American Football Player
Comedian
Composer
Dub Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Manufacturer
Screenwriter
Singer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
William Henry Bill Cosby Jr.
Dr. William H. Cosby Jr. Ed.D.
William H. Cosby Jr. Ed.D.
William Henry Cosby Jr.
War
Anywhere
Ravages
Made
Genius
Commanding
Men
Marriage
Supposedly
Pieces
Queen
Wants
Bravery
Game
Queens
Games
Moves
Moving
Chess

More quotes by Bill Cosby

Image
If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know.
Bill Cosby
Image
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.
Bill Cosby
Image
I wanted to give the house back to the parents.
Bill Cosby
Image
You also notice that the right side of your face feels like it's sliding off of your skull. And your bottom lip is in your lap!
Bill Cosby
Image
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby
Image
I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
Bill Cosby
Image
Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”
Bill Cosby
Image
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Bill Cosby
Image
There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
Bill Cosby
Image
You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.
Bill Cosby
Image
But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.
Bill Cosby
Image
Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!
Bill Cosby
Image
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
Bill Cosby
Image
I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.
Bill Cosby
Image
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.
Bill Cosby
Image
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby
Image
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.
Bill Cosby
Image
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.
Bill Cosby
Image
When we look at the settling of America we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing God Bless America.
Bill Cosby
Image
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