I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience.


Harvard Commencement, June 5, 2008

J. K. Rowling Quotes

I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I...

I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I...

I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I...

I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I...