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Quotes About Longevity

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
~ John Travolta
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.
~ Michael O'Leary
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
~ Bill Bonner
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
~ Doug Larson
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
~ William Wordsworth
In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
~ Perry Como
I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.
~ Kristin Cavallari
There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.
~ RuPaul
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
~ Sophocles
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
~ Lee Iacocca
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.
~ Khushwant Singh
John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.
~ Jimmy Fallon
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
~ Joseph Pilates
Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
~ Michael Jordan
Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
~ Veikko Karvonen
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
~ Brooks Stevens
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
~ Prince
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
~ Barry White
I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.
~ Steven Wilson