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.)

    “The acorn’s not yet
    Fallen from the tree
    That’s to grow the wood,
    That’s to make the cradle,
    That’s to rock the bairn,
    That’s to grow a man,
    That’s to lay me.”
    —Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)