Rachel Boston Quotes

Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

My goal is to live to be 100.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

I've just been a very lucky person. I'm 76 years of age, you know. I've been very lucky.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

I plan on working until I'm 105.

I'm going to be 100 years old, hopefully still hosting the 'Kitten Bowl.'

I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.