Quotes About Youth

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.