Quotes & Sayings About Centenarians

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination. — Nikola Tesla

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. — S. Jay Olshansky

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions. — Elie Metchnikoff

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean. — Dan Buettner

DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies. — Billy London