Humble Origins Quotes

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

I will never forget where I come from, and my journey to becoming an NBA Champion has been hard to believe.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

I don't come from money.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.

I come from the favelas, I'm grounded.

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.