 William Billy Barwald - I think the most significant change in my lifetime has been time. Today in the modern era, everybody carries a wristwatch on their wrist and a cell phone in their pocket, and their lives are chopped up into little 15-minute increments. People don't have time anymore to stop and do what they want to do. |
 Ruth Block - I'm amazed how much medicine has changed in my lifetime. I remember when penicillin was first used at the very beginning of the 40s, during World War II, and going through the stages of penicillin and all the new antibiotics that came out. |
 Murray Cohen - I've used the computer 15 to 20 years. I'm still not an expert, but still I use it every day. I get my messages, e-mail; I use it to type everything up. All my news bulletins are done on the computer, and I put them on 46 bulletin boards in my condo. |
 Irene DeLaby - I have done lots of hard, physical labor. Not just in the defense plants [during World War II], but I worked on farms during the Depression. That's how I got milk and vegetables. You earn a living by what you get, but you earn a life by what you give. That's the kind of model that I try to get folks to think about. |
 Charlie Futrell - I think that one of the things that really helped me in my time is being an athlete. It teaches you a lot of lessons. I've always felt that being in athletics and being around young people has kept me young. I tell groups of kids, adults, It's never too late to start your program." |
 Vivien Grant - I think technology has made life very easy for us. It should give us the time to make the world a better place to live in. We don't have to spend much time cooking and cleaning, so we should spend time making the world a better place. |
 Charles Mills - I grew up in Harlem , those are the years I always go back to. Because many of the things that happened there are what have brought me to where I am now: friends, family, the area of Harlem itself. It was the time of the Depression, but it was a time when people were close to one another, that people helped one another. The community of Harlem was full of joy and music and wonderful people, so those years really meant a lot to me and helped me a lot. |
 Sewall Pastor - Art is important to me because my wife and I have done a tremendous amount of traveling. We always go to museums all over the world. We have visited 116 different countries. Most of it was from what I invented something called Medical Odysseys. It was travel for physicians and their wives to different countries. If we were going to, say India , I would arrange for us to meet doctors there, to visit the hospitals and clinics and exchange medical knowledge. They were wonderful trips. Three times they were around the world. |
 Barney Rosenstein - In other countries, societies, we look to the older person for wisdom. The older person has acquired experience. We need to make sure not to parcel the older person off to a retirement home. Just because their hair may be gray, doesn't mean they've lost their knowledge. There should be some way that the experience of the older person can teach our society. |
 Charlotte Sanchez-Tyler - I still think I'm 25, and I can still do anything I've ever done! There aren't any pains in the frame! I say, When I get pains, then I'm old.' Until then, as long as I can hop, skip, run and do a somersault, I'm not going to ever say I'm old.' I'm sure I'm going to live to be 125! |
 Morton Teicher - "The computer has made a huge difference. I have an e-mail relationship with my grandchildren. We are always emailing back and forth. And of course that I can be associated with a university in Indiana , and I sit in Miami , and my students are all over the country literally makes such a difference as far as modern technology. That kind of change is mind-boggling when you think about it." |
 Jose Temprana - The secret of life is getting along with everyone, go to parties and laugh. God gave me the secret to have a long life. I don't know how to accept that I am aging. I think it comes with time. I don't feel old, I feel as if I were 50 years old. An old guy doesn't fall in love. |
