Quotes About Longevity

Two old men are sitting on the front porch of their retirement home. One man turns to the other and asks, "Do you still get horny?" "Oh yes, sure I do." "What do you do about it?" the first man asks. "I usually suck a lifesaver or two," the second man replies. After a few moments the first man asks, "Who drives you to the beach?

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

The problem began with his telomeres. What is a telomere? Picture the little plastic bits on the end of your shoelaces. Imagine each time you tie your shoes, you have to clip off a little bit of that plastic part to get it to go through the lace holes. After you've done this enough times, the plastic tip is gone and the shoelace starts to unravel. Once the laces unravel enough, it's impossible to tie your shoes, and you walk around looking like a goober.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

We're gonna make up for that. We're gonna live a long time together.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years' time.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.