Allowance Quote by Beverly Cleary

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid…

— David Boies

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels.…

— Esther Williams

“Going out on a date was very cheap in those days [1962]. I borrowed my father's station wagon, put in a gallon of gas…

— Aslan Ben Eliahou

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

— Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

— Gene Tierney

From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected 'Star Wars' toy figures from the 1970s and '80s, and we'd…

— Alexandra Bracken

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people…

— Karen DeCrow

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

— Mort Sahl

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You…

— John Paul DeJoria

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought…

— Guy Fieri

When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be…

— Cara Delevingne

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room.…

— Zoe Kravitz