Top 35 Ordinary Person Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ordinary Person Quotes from famous people such as Dolores O’Riordan, Lee Min-ho, Carol Berg, Tracy Kidder, Chris Burke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from

I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children’s school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
Dolores O’Riordan
I’m really just an ordinary person.
Lee Min-ho
I’m a fairly ordinary person – a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!
Carol Berg
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I’ve ever met… He’s the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
Tracy Kidder
Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn’t know that he’s an inspiration.
Chris Burke
I’m just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
Julia Roberts
I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
Because I’m just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
Donna Summer
Guess what? I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
Chai Jing
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
Wadah Khanfar
You don’t have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I’d like more people to know that it’s there. Women’s achievements still aren’t recognised enough in many areas.
Joan Armatrading
I’m just an ordinary person.
Annie Lennox
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary
My father was not in power when I started my political career, or when I fought my first election in 1996. Starting like any ordinary person, I reached out to people everywhere.
Mehbooba Mufti
I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
Jeremy Corbyn
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
Buzz Aldrin
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
Rachel Joyce
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Elliot Richardson
I feel like I’m an ordinary person, but I’ve had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw ‘The Office’ coming, I never saw ‘Inside Out’ coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.
Phyllis Smith
I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
Wael Ghonim
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
Ruth Asawa
I just think it’s useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you’re just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.
Prunella Scales
When I’m playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley’s Game I want to be in the moment when he’s feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
Dougray Scott
I’m just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.
Ghostface Killah
The questions that we scientist have about Saturn’s rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?
Carolyn Porco
An ordinary person who wants to invest in the stock market or a mutual fund, or simply open a saving bank account, is bombarded by ever increasing compliance regulations under the pretext of automation, efficiency, better governance or prevention of money laundering.
Sucheta Dalal
I, for one, am, like, the most ordinary person. Like, people look past me all the time because I’m just so blending in.
Syd
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ord

I do feel as if… Look, I think I’m a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I’m not exceptional; I don’t have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville
When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.
Nana Patekar
If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person’s house for a week, it’s considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it’s perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
Vince Vaughn
I consider myself an ordinary person.
Coco Martin