Synonyms for Humble beginnings:

Famous quotes with Humble beginnings

• 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
• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  Titus Livius
• If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.

  Russell P. Askue
• Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.

  Jeffrey Vlaming
• Bit by bit, as the legend unfolds, the reader gets a more accurate picture of the human race. By degrees, one gains the conviction that here is a race which can be little more than pure fantasy. It is not the kind of race which could rise from humble beginnings to the eminence of culture with which it is gifted in these tales. Its equipment is too poor. So far it lack of stability has become apparent. Its preoccupation with a mechanical civilization rather than with a culture based on some of the sounder, more worthwhile concepts of life indicates a lack of basic character. And now, in this tale, we learn of the limited communications which it possessed, a situation which certainly is not conducive to advancement. Man’s inability to understand and appreciate the thought and the viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

  Clifford D. Simak

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