Willard Scott Quotes

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

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

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

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.

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

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

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.