Quotes About Longevity

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old.

With enough lunges and squats, your butt will stay firm till you're 80.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

We have given our whole life to the film industry. We are grateful to everyone who has liked us and we wish that we can entertain everyone till the time we die.

I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.

Tim Duncan did it. Dirk Nowitzki did it. I just want to be one of those guys... that stays for the city, play for the city for 20 years.

I feel like I'm the Tim Duncan of boxing.

I think everybody's ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.

Success comes but with time. People want to achieve things very quickly; they are not patient.

You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.

We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and be told that we're not forgotten about, that our music is timeless.

We've always prided ourselves on making a record that we want to feel proud of, ones that are hopefully timeless so they can be around for a long time.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

Long runs are definitely tedious, but I find that timing is important on them. I like to do my long runs either early in the morning as the sun rises or in the late afternoon when the sun sets because it gives me something to see instead of thinking about how long I'm running.

Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

I will very happily grow old in the comedic world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, if they would keep having me over and over.

Ted Kennedy was in the Senate for 40 years. Tip O'Neill for 35 years. John Kerry in the Senate for 30 some odd years. It does take time to become effective.

Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.