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Quotes About Longevity

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
~ Jack Ramsay
It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
~ Ray Stevenson
Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.
~ Christy Turlington
The U.K. has led the fight against malaria for a long time, for well over a century in fact.
~ Penny Mordaunt
It's rare to see Mourinho manage three years at the same team.
~ Demba Ba
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
~ Yusuf Hamied
I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.
~ Harry Redknapp
It makes me very proud that a club like Manchester United have wanted me to be here as long as I have been.
~ Chris Smalling
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
~ Emil Zatopek
I said it for a long time I could run a marathon.
~ Jason Sehorn
that was the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath! 'Live long and prosper'.
~ Diane Duane
The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.
~ Diane Setterfield
Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was.
~ Dick Francis
He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.
~ Don DeLillo
When I met couples whose marriages were thriving after thirty and forty years, none of them were riding an emotional roller coaster of passion and then resentment. Instead, they loved each other as an act of their conscious will. They were more in control of their love than their "love" was in control of them.
~ Donald Miller
Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.
~ Donna Tartt
Three years is a long time." "It is to us. But in the scheme of things—not at all. I mean," said Andy reasonably, "look at some poor dumb bunny like Sabine Ingersoll or that idiot James Villiers. Forrest fucking Longstreet.
~ Donna Tartt
It is this capacity that now matters most to our future as a species: the part of us that feels awe in the knowledge that a simple clam, Arctica islandica, can live for as long as four hundred years, that the gingko tree has remained essentially unchanged through million years of evolution, but also that some insects have adult lives so brief they are born without mouths to eat with.
~ Unknown
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~ Jack Benny
Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. -Author Unknown
~ Jack Canfield
Mr. Donovan, I have been in this chair for over thirty years.
~ Unknown
If you're watching a popular American show from the last 20 years, look out for a detective by the name of John Munch. Always played by the same man, Richard Belzer, he was originally a character on Homicide: Life on the Street, before joining the cast of Law & Order Special Victims Unit. But there's more; he has also been seen on episodes of The X-Files, Arrested Development, The Wire, 30 Rock and many more - always the same actor as the same character.
~ Jack Goldstein
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
~ Jack Nicklaus