S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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.

China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.

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

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

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

India has a population of over 1 billion people. There is place for all sports and for sure there is space for football.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!

Often it is fatal to live too long.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

All would live long, but none would be old.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.