Quotes About Centenarians

#1. Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

Elie Metchnikoff

#2. Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

Dan Buettner

#3. DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies.

Billy London

#4. In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

S. Jay Olshansky

#5. I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Nikola Tesla

#6. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#7. But don't you also find it hard to accept that your [mankind's] attempts to solve your problems fail with predictable regularity? It seems to us [Luxenbenites] you would welcome an overall solution.

Dan Hurwitz

#8. Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

Max Heindel

#9. I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Ji-Hae Park

#10. Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.

Ronald Dunn

#12. If I were a burning smolder, he was the poker, stirring
me into flames.

S. Jae-Jones

#13. 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Eddie Van Halen

#14. Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

Anonymous

#15. In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. To learn is to change.

George Leonard

#17. I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

Kumar Pallana

#18. And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

Rene Descartes