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.)

    ““O what unlucky streak
    Twisting inside me, made me break the line?
    What was the rock my gliding childhood struck,
    And what bright unreal path has led me here?””
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)