Quotes About Longevity

The easiest way to understand this is, it's exactly what Social Security does. With Social Security, you know, you're paying in over your lifetime while you're working, and then when you retire, you get paid back income every month for as long as you live.

It is not realistic to finance a 30-year retirement with 30 years of work. You can't expect to put 10% of your income aside and then finance a retirement that's just as long.

She continued writing up to 1856, when she was seventy-six years old,--and had at that time produced 114 volumes, of which the first was not written till she was fifty. Her career offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence.

Children grow fast in this low gravity. But they don't age so quickly—they'll live longer than we do." Floyd stared in fascination at the self-assured little lady, noting the graceful carriage and the unusually delicate bone structure.

A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories, and he asks only for rest—or a new beginning.

They were, perhaps, as contented as any race the world had known, and after their fashion they were happy. They spent their long lives amid beauty that had never been surpassed, for the labour of millions of centuries had been dedicated to the glory of Diaspar.

As crianças crescem depressa neste ambiente de baixa gravidade. Mas não envelhecem na mesma proporção e assim viverão mais do que nós.

Oh, well, Doremus reflected, he had lived with Emma for thirty-four years, and not oftener than once or twice a year had he wanted to murder her.

I thought marriage was for ever. I really did. I thought Luke and I would grow old and grey together. Or at least, old. (I'm not intending to go grey, ever...)

Además, todo el mundo sabe que los chinos viven más tiempo que nosotros, así que ¿cómo no va a ser saludable alimentarse de comida china? Y la pizza es mediterránea. Seguro que es más sana que muchas cosas que la gente toma en su casa.

All our institutions, including that of marriage and the family, are historically based on short and vulnerable lives….The twenty-first century has to adapt all of these institutions to deal with longer and longer lives." —Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology, University of Oxford

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.