#modest

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#bike #built #camping #children #dirt

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly. ↗

— James Denton

#as far as #every #far #get #hired

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#excellent #follow #indeed #modest #none

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. ↗

— Jane Harrison

#either #honorable #humane #manly #meek

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. ↗

— Walter Hill

#criticism #film #i #i think #made

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless #funny #modesty #funny

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#ever #hear #him #man #modest

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#ever #hear #modest #modest person #people