Modest Upbringing Quotes

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.

People call my family a dynasty, but I'm not sure what a dynasty actually is. And I don't feel part of one. It belies the truth of my real upbringing, which wasn't grand at all, and it flies in the face of the fact that, at root, I'm just a jobbing actor.

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

I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

Playboy in Brazil is like a rich boy, but I've never been a rich boy. My family is not rich. Actually, I help all my family.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I have my feet on the ground.

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

You know, I didn't grow up in a cultured household. We were all highly intelligent, but we were common, simple people. We weren't activists, none of that.

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past but they made sure I did not miss anything. But there was nothing extra, no luxuries.

I come from a pretty humble family, and I try to be a humble guy.

I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.