Quotes About Longevity

I'm little but I'm old.

They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody.

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.

but things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests . . .

The horse tires not of hay, the porcuswine will snuffle up his swill greedily unto eternity.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

If you want one year of happiness, grow grain. If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees. If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.

I like writing, and I enjoy the production part a lot, actually. It gives you longevity in a career, where you know sometimes you might not always have the time to do the parts you want to do.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something and it's there forever.

Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

I've been in WWE for 22 years, and that's a long time, and I still think I perform at a high level.

To be someplace for ten years or to work anywhere for ten years is a tough deal. But to work in the WWE for that long, knowing how their dressing room is run with this top heavy, condescending 'do this and nothing else' attitude, it gets tiresome.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

I wouldn't go to pro wrestling. It's not really my thing. I'm a fan, but I think every sport could take some notes from the WWE - how they've progressed and stayed relevant for such a long period of time.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'