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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit.
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.
We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.
What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.
Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.
My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.
In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour.
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.
I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.
