Quotes About Longevity

Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. Intelligent beings can solve problems better, live longer, and leave more offspring. Until the invention of nuclear weapons, intelligence powerfully aided survival.

Longevity is perhaps the best single measure of the physical quality of life. (If you're dead, there's little you can do to be happy.) This is a precious offering from science to humanity -nothing less than the gift of life.

Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

Seven thousand years is just one day at a time

The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn't really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long.

Wish For A Young Wife My lizard, my lively writher May your limbs never wither May the eyes in your face Survive the green ice Of envy's mean gaze; May you live out your life Without hate, without grief, And your hair ever blaze, In the sun, in the sun, When I am undone, When I am no one.

Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.

Jon Jones is at the top for a long time, can't say enough about him.

I've been around since 1985. When the Jordan shoe came out.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn't even have probably been in the league, and he's the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How's his outside shot? Eh, it's inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can't stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!

Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

People said I would be in the league for two to three years and then I would be done. I have been blessed to keep going, and also have success.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

I will try to keep going as long as I can. I'd love to play until the age of 40 - it will be interesting to see if I can do that.

My mom lived to be 91, and her advice was, 'Honey, just keep moving.'

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.