Quotes about Longevity
If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.
- Maude Royden
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
- Maya Angelou
Genius lasts longer than beauty
- Oscar Wilde
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
- Bob Goff
A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.
- Kirsten Dunst
Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young.
- Dale Carnegie
Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
- Henry Blackaby
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Les Brown
I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
- Dolly Parton
I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
- Julie Andrews
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
- George Bernard Shaw