Quotes About Longevity

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Love is a sprint. Marriage is a marathon. An endurance race, if you will.

Why didn't you tell me? It's all such a complicated mess." "Most lives are if you live long enough, my darling." "I've

There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live.

As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.

It turns out that inheritance has surprisingly little influence on longevity. James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany, notes that only 3 percent of how long you'll live, compared with the average, is explained by your parents' longevity; by contrast, up to 90 percent of how tall you are is explained by your parents' height. Even genetically identical twins vary widely in life span: the typical gap is more than fifteen years.

MODERN SCIENTIFIC CAPABILITY has profoundly altered the course of human life. People live longer and better than at any other time in history. But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, matters to be managed by health care professionals

So today, with our average life span in much of the world climbing past eighty years, we are already oddities living well beyond our appointed time.

People live longer and better than at any other time in history. But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, matters to be managed by health care professionals. And we in the medical world have proved alarmingly unprepared for it.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.