Hard Knock Life

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:

    “People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “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)

    “... the precipitate of sorrow is happiness, the precipitate of struggle is success. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)