Slippery Rock

Slippery Rock may refer to the following:

  • Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, a borough in Butler County
  • Slippery Rock Creek, a tributary of the Beaver River in Pennsylvania
  • Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words slippery and/or rock:

    “In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “each rock a word
    a creek-washed stone
    Granite: ingrained
    with torment of fire and weight”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)