Latchkey Children Quotes

#1. Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about."
"Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

Marisha Pessl

#2. We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

Letitia Baldrige

#3. All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.

Bremer Acosta

#4. Because only savage women and animals are sincere. Once civilization has introduced a demand for such comforts as, for instance, feminine virtue, sincerity is out of place ...

Anton Chekhov

#5. If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Eric Braeden

#6. I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

Eva Braun

#7. Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler - and nothing could be more challenging.

Gregory A. Boyd

#8. One morning I remember pulling out a small card and threading it through my typewriter. Among the words that I typed [ ... ] were these: The simple secret is this: put your trust in the Lord, do your best, then leave the rest to Him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Don't focus on the mishaps; consider the pleasures instead.

Victor LaValle

#10. I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.

Lindsay Duncan

#11. Vegetables ... a waste of good plate space

Mark Hoppus

#12. You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

Cassandra Clare