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I came from rather humble beginnings. -- Teresa Palmer
I do come from fairly humble beginnings. -- Tony Bates
One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within. -- Dave Pelzer
I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning. -- Madam C. J. Walker
The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings. -- Laozi
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. -- Livy
He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show. -- Vincent de Paul
I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon. -- Robin S. Sharma
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university. -- Petra Stunt
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings. -- Kate Fleetwood
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells. -- Vincent de Paul
I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything! -- Katy Perry
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'. -- Criss Jami
I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be. -- Heidi Montag
I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had. -- Paula Abdul
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing. -- Dane Cook
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am. -- Adrienne Bailon
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. -- David Maraniss
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it. -- Blake Lively
People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder. -- Sean Combs
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. -- Jean Chretien
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy. -- Chuck D
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. -- Michel de Montaigne
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create. -- Nick Woodman
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to. -- Si Robertson
I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings. -- Carmen Ejogo
Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble. -- Ann Aguirre
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all. -- Ellen Glasgow

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