Blowing Rock

Blowing Rock may refer to:

  • The town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina
  • The rocky outcropping Blowing Rock (land feature), near the town of the same name
  • Caribbean island belonging to Anguilla
  • The smoking of crack cocaine (cocaine in rock form)

Famous quotes containing the words blowing and/or rock:

    “Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “Here is no water but only rock
    Rock and no water and the sandy road
    The road winding above among the mountains
    Which are mountains of rock without water
    If there were water we should stop and drink
    Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)