Quotes About Longevity

I've been playing football all my life.

I've always put the work in to not only get be an All-Star, but be an All-Star for a long time. That's my goal.

I've always believed in myself and I've always put the work in to get to not only be an all-star but be an all-star for a long time. That's my goal. I think about these things and I feel like I have the ability to do it.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

My arms are pretty long.

I have long arms.

finding that art is long and life is short — ars longa et vita brevis — did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.

Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

Is that what lives on longest, the sadness? The proof of our being weak, not the proof of our being strong?

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

The Lord of the Rings ] is not as seems widely supposed about 'power'. Power-seeking is only the motive-power that sets events going, and is relatively unimportant, I think. It is mainly concerned with Death, and Immortality; and the 'escapes': serial longevity, and hoarding memory. Letter 211 To Rhona Beare

Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

Meditation also appears to slow age-related degeneration in our brains. Neurologist Eileen Luders at UCLA looked at the link between age and the volume of the brain's white matter, which typically shrinks with age. She reported that this decrease was less prominent in meditators as compared to non-meditators. On average, the brains of long-term practitioners appeared to be seven and a half years younger at the age of fifty than the brains of non-meditators.

I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

Openness is a particularly wonderful personality trait to improve, since it's predictive of better health and longer life.

I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.