S. Truett Cathy Quotes

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

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

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

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

If I could only live another century!

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

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

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

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