Quotes About Centenarian

My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

When you become 100, life changes completely.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.

My father finally died a month before he turned 101, his license

I take it this means that you had good news from the doctor? She says I shall live to be a hundred. And what's the good news?

Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.

Enough - the Centenarian's story ends; The two, past and present, have interchanged; I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.

The bowhead lives its life extremely slowly, becoming sexually mature at about age twenty-five, with females giving birth every seven years or so; if it avoids the whalers, a bowhead has a good chance of living well past a century.19 It is definitively the

hundred and ten is not such a great age, from a biblical point of view at least.

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

Mrs. Annie Duitscher from Baltimore came by. In 1882, when she was eleven years old, she saw President [William] McKinley going up the street and moved forward to shake hands him. Her father said 'We're just common folks. You can't shake hands with the president.' And now she's 106 years old and came by to shake hands with me. She's very lively and witty, and I enjoyed meeting with her.

Congratulations on turning eighty. You are closer from being a centenarian more than ever.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

My goal is to live to be 100.

It occurred to me that human beings didn't live beyond a hundred because they simply weren't up for it. Psychologically, I mean.

i hope i live to be 150