Latchkey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The impact today from the latchkey generational signpost is that Generation Xers tend to be highly independent workers. After

Meagan Johnson

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

Gudjon Bergmann

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

Lara Flynn Boyle

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories

Glenda Millard

#8. 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

#9. There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

Doug Ose

#10. I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

Jennifer Garner

#11. 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

#12. We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.

S. Kelley Harrell

#13. 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

#14. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

#15. One could say it is our destiny, our fate within the human condition to always hold onto hope of redemption even if it is the last thread that connects us to life.

Joe Hart

#16. Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. Cassius shook his head and sighed "I want to have just one conversation with you that doesn't required GPS to navigate. I'm not asking for the world-just one normal conversation. We used to talk. Remember that?

Gabrielle Evans

#18. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.

Janelle Gray

#19. The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Joel Osteen

#20. FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Ambrose Bierce