Quote by Bob Newhart

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and

Summary

This quote emphasizes the value of strong family relationships as the true source of pride and fulfillment in one's life. The speaker prioritizes the long-lasting bonds formed through a successful marriage and the joy that comes from raising children and seeing them start families of their own. It suggests that material possessions or personal achievements pale in comparison to the deep and lasting love and connection found within a supportive and enduring family unit. This quote serves as a reminder to cherish and prioritize our loved ones above everything else.

Topics

Marriage

By Bob Newhart

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my ch

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Freedom Fate Free Will Damnation

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first pia

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Teacher

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Thought

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger mach

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Friedrich Schiller

Society

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will det

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Football

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Life

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges la

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, a

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Agatha Christie

Ability

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I ha

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eye

Words

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Communism

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light a

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Humor