Life Expectancy Quotes

• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

  72 Copy quote

• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.215, Wildside Press LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

  Niall Ferguson

  Country, People, Political

  "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Jack Kingston

  Years, People, Today

  3 Copy quote

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

  Virginia Foxx

  Today, Social, Expectancy

  3 Copy quote

• 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.

  Grace Napolitano

  Men, White, Years

  3 Copy quote

• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Julie Bishop

  Research, World, Medical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

  18 Copy quote

• The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Team, Years

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

  Ken Buck

  Retirement, Benefits, Increase

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

  11 Copy quote

• I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.

  Sherry Lansing

  Retirement, Past, Two

  3 Copy quote

• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

  Jacob Sullum

  Impact, Casual, Exposure

  Jacob Sullum (1999). “For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.

  Donald Tsang

  People, Friendly, World

  "CE speaks at Business for Clean Air' Joint Conference". www.info.gov.hk. November 27, 2006.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Radiation, Mars

  3 Copy quote

• He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

  Terry Pratchett

  Three, Hedgehogs, Six

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.74, Random House

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Payroll Tax, Benefits, Trends

  3 Copy quote

• Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

  Dan Buettner

  Life, Years, America

  7 Copy quote

• The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Average Life

  8 Copy quote

• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Wise, Block, Said

  "Tears of a clown" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source