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.)

    “Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)