Serious Quotes

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

Mark Dayton
- Serious
When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.

Kate Middleton
- Up
- Important
- Family

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

Karrine Steffans
- Women
- Real
- Mother
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Isaac Barrow
- Men
- Play
- Church
The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.

David Ogden Stiers
- Great
- Music
- Kids
When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.

Mark Foster Foster the People
- Up
- Experience
- Pretty
I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

Mark Ronson
- Serious
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene 1979. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.

Roger Alan Painter Christian Death
- Together
- Realizing
- Punk