“Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.”
Frank Buckles (1901–2011) United States Army soldier and centenarian
On his long life.
Knoxville News.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Variant: Ivy is [a type] of longevity.
“Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.”
Frank Buckles (1901–2011) United States Army soldier and centenarian
On his long life.
Knoxville News.
“The secret of my success is longevity.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) Philosopher
In Herbert F. Vetter, " Not The Average Philosopher http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/hartshorne.html", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. On his selection to the Library of Living Philosophers.
“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“If you're judging any creative effort, longevity is the reward.”
Jules Bass (1935–2022) American composer and filmmaker
Arthur Rankin, Jr. Interview https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/arthur-rankin-jr
“But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“… Ivy’s COOK THE STEAK, DON’T STAKE THE COOK apron…”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: A Perfect Blood
“If the meaning of life is futility, human longevity loses its luster.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
“Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
