Jack Kingston Quotes

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

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

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

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

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

People die at 100 years old now. When I was a kid, people died at 67.

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

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

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.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

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

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

When the social security age was first established as 65, most people didn't live to be that old.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

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

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

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.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.