State Symbols
- Nickname: The Hawkeye State
- Bird: Eastern Goldfinch
- Flower: Wild Rose
- Grass: Bluebunch Wheatgrass
- Tree: Oak
- Motto: "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain."
- Rock: Geode
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Famous quotes containing the words state and/or symbols:
“I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement—a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”
—David Elkind (20th century)