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:
“I have tried so hard to do right.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“man’s life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)