Top 1200 School Of Hard Knocks Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.

Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

God knocks the ball out of the park and I get to run the bases.

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

If Jimmy McGovern knocks and you are offered a part, you don't say, 'can I ease myself into it?'

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.

When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

High school sucks! It's hard.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

I had a hard time in high school.