A Quote by Debbie Reynolds

I went to the school of hard knocks.

Debbie Reynolds

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Debbie Reynolds
American - Actress
April 1, 1932 - December 28, 2016

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Menander

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Albert Einstein

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

William O'Neill

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Peter McWilliams

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

John Lydon

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

David Livermore

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

Chuck D

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

Ibn Warraq

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Henry Ford

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Lana Del Rey

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Caterina Fake

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

Emily Dickinson

Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate.

Sydney Banks

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

John Dorsey

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