J. K. Rowling Quotes

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

In prosperity remember adversity.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Most people need the money all the time.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.