Both men take pride in their modest social origins.

Mister Diz, a foal of 1966, came from very modest origins.

Born in Wadowice on May 18, 1920, to a father who was a military officer, he had modest but middle-class origins.

That Rutledge had been of modest origins himself was long forgotten.

Of modest origin, he was granted a bursary to study law.

In Ypres, the members of the family on his father's side came from modest origins.

Coming from modest origins, Caesonia was a daughter of Vistilia.

He was the first person of modest origins to take this role, and his success was taken as a good sign by Western observers.

Being from modest origins, Paul Guillaume worked in a garage.

It was the same instinct that had raised him from his modest origins to the leadership of a large and important colony.