“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.” WorldFirstsHas BeensWarCareMotherDesireChoicesFatherStudyAdviceSeriousPleaseAll ThingsMy FamilyLegacySolemnPredecessorsPeace With God Author:Robert Dabney
“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.” LittlesTogetherCoursesFeltRealizingSituationGrowing UpGrowingGroupsSeriousSceneIdealsMy FamilyStartingDemonComing OutPunk Author:Rozz Williams
“I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.” KnowsMayStillsHardShowsKidsHouseFourWeekStreetsSeriousMy FamilyMaking MoneyGrandmaHoodMy GrandmaGrandma's House Author:Shy Glizzy
“Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.” SeriousDeterminationMy FamilyWorkers Author:Simon Weston
“My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.” WayCareFeltEmotionSeriousMy FamilyBoringTake CareSevereTake Care Of Me Author:Miuccia Prada
“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.” FirstsWantedSeriousDadFirst TimeMy FamilyHorseMy DadPerformingJockeys Author:Janet Jackson
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.” ChildrenRealityKidsFallSecretSituationSeriousLuckyMy FamilyWho You AreDivorceBeing TrueFalling ApartIntegrating Author:Patrick Somerville
“In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.” TryingPoliticalSeriousCommunicationSurvivalMy FamilyEverydayEveryday LifeForbiddenSmall Talk Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku