Hard Knock Life may refer to:
- "It's the Hard Knock Life", a song from the musical Annie
- "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)", a single by rapper Jay-Z which samples the showtune from Annie
- Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, an album by Jay-Z featuring the song "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)"
Famous quotes containing the words hard, knock and/or life:
“It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–75)
“Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that.
Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.”
—Muriel Box (b. 1905)
“With liberty and pleasant weather, the simplest occupation, any unquestioned country mode of life which detains us in the open air, is alluring. The man who picks peas steadily for a living is more than respectable, he is even envied by his shop-worn neighbors. We are as happy as the birds when our Good Genius permits us to pursue any outdoor work, without a sense of dissipation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)