Michael Paterniti Quotes

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

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

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'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

I'd like to live to a hundred.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

If I could only live another century!

My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.