Walter Breuning Quotes

United States, Railroad Executive
September 21, 1896 – April, 14, 2011.

Walter Breuning was an American super centenarian who was the oldest recognized living man between July 18, 2009 and April 14, 2011. Breuning is the third-oldest verified American man ever behind Danish-born Christian Mortensen and Mathew Beard as well as the second-oldest man ever born in the United States, as Christian Mortensen was born in Denmark. At the time of his death he was the fourth-oldest verified man ever.

Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.

Walter Breuning
- Time
- Important
- Long
Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.

Walter Breuning
- Change
- Faces
- Embrace

Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.

Walter Breuning
- People
- Dying
- Born
Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless life is short if it lasts a century. There are greater and better things in us all, if we would find them out. There will always be in this world – wrongs. No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever.

Walter Breuning
- Life
- Remember
- Forever
A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.

Walter Breuning
- People
- Believe
- Thinking
With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another.

Walter Breuning
- World
- Kind
- Hatred