Top 1200 School Of Hard Knocks Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn't really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

In my junior year of high school, I went to a boarding school for the arts: a school called the Governor's School for The Arts and Humanities. It was basically a mini-Juilliard - an intense training conservatory for the arts.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.

I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.

All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

It knocks the rust off, going against a guy like Kevin Love.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It's not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.

At school, girls sometimes find it hard to speak up.

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

I used to go to auditions, mainly for talent competitions like 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]