Barbara Boxer Quotes

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

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

The worthless usually live long.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

Life is short and art is long.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

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.

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.