Quotes About Lifespan

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

A pastry chef's lifespan in a restaurant is limited. You have to open a bakery or pastry shop. There's only so far you can go in a restaurant.

It is not unusual for ducks to live and reproduce for six to eight years, and there are reports of exceptional birds living fifteen years or longer.

I would not be at all surprised to find out....personal feelings about our situation in time, seldom in accordance with fact, so that we are always taken by surprise by 'ageing', may be an indication of a different lifespan, in the past - but that this past, in biological terms, is quite recent, and so we have not come to terms with it psychologically.

Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.

The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.

For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren't going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They're not going to be thinking of the whole lifespan of this project, or how do we document every single light bulb, or every product, so that when a chair breaks in a conference room, we can replace it right away.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

That is actually a real kicker when it comes longevity, because it means even if we completely eliminated atherosclerosis from the population it would still only extend people's healthy lifespan and therefore people's total lifespan by three or four years.

We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong. God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns.

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

The number of people on the planet has risen fivefold since 1900, while the average lifespan has doubled.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.