Latchkey Kid Quotes

#1. My mom brought me up by herself, so I was a latchkey kid. I would walk myself back from school and spent a lot of time at home alone, watching TV. There weren't a lot of Latinas - or any women of color. And the ones I saw were usually presented as stereotypes or treated like jokes.

Sara Ramirez

#2. I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Jim Rash

#3. To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#4. We were the first latchkey-kid generation. Our parents believed in free love, and for many of us, that meant broken homes.

Gudjon Bergmann

#5. My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.

John Bryant

#6. Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

Lucy Liu

#8. Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

John Hay

#10. Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.

John O'Callaghan

#11. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.

Edward Gibbon

#12. I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Andrew Bird

#13. Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms ... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

Kim Newman

#14. Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea.

Charles Dickens