Quotes About Longevity

Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.

Barefoot running is often described as a fad—one that will fizzle after a few years. But as Dr. Lieberman says, "If barefoot running is a fad, then it's a two-million-year-old fad.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

As he said, being careful had helped him stay alive all these years and he was looking forward to maintaining that record.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A

It was thus that the keynote of existence was struck for me, one of mirth even in the dark of storm, and that I have since become the oldest man that ever lived, and shall doubtless continue to the end of time to hold the record for longevity, I attribute to nothing else than that, thanks to my father's droll humor, I was born smiling.

Chinese communism lies the world's longest tradition of successful autocracy.

Longevity can be a form of spite. I am an old man myself now, and I recognise the symptoms.

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.

One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put

Eat whole wheat bread, but not the whole grain. The whole grain is too hard to digest. Never eat freshly cooked bread. It rises and buckles in the stomach. Eating freshly cooked bread will shorten your life.

The truth is that life in the end--even a long life, especially a long life--amounts to a handful of a very few things. The longer you live, the shorter the story.

Sebastien wondered if David knew he hadn't touched another of his kind since they parted company, more than a century ago.

David had his reasons to be angry. But after a century or two, one did grow tired. Mortal lifetimes were a mercy to love, Sebastien thought. It could endure that long.

Renewing cells include some types of normal cells that can divide, like immune cells; progenitor cells, which can keep dividing even longer; and those critical cells in our bodies called stem cells, which can divide indefinitely as long as they are healthy.

Why do people age differently? One reason is cellular aging.

Telomeres, which shorten with each cell division, help determine how fast your cells age and when they die, depending on how quickly they wear down.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.

everything sustaining would last.

I'm old. I'm so old I'm about done with liven. I can feel how old I am. I'm old and old and old. I've been in life a long, long time. Oh, how old I am.