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:
“The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Could that old god rise up again
We’d drink a can or two,
And out and lay our leadership
On country and on town,
Throw likely couples into bed
And knock the others down.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Death does determine life.... Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.”
—Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975)