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US State Motto or Jewel Poetry?

December 11th, 2007 by Conor Lastowka · 4 Comments

Each of these fourteen quotes is either an official US State Motto or an excerpt from a poem by Jewel. See how many you can identify correctly!

1. To the stars through adversity

2. Move mountains with words

3. Hunted by tulips at three am

4. Manly deeds, womanly words

5. Remember the incredible

6. Let it be perpetual

7. Who you really are at your highest is who you will become

8. It grows as it goes

9. Where Blue eyeshadow has never gone before

10. More of a dream with each waking day

11. Find god in simplicity

12. She flies with her own wings

13. While I breathe, I hope

14. Agriculture and commerce

Highlight below for answers:

State Mottos: 1-Kansas,4-Maryland,6-Idaho,8-New Mexico,12-Oregon,13-South Carolina,14-Tennessee

Jewel Poetry: 2,3,5,7,9,10,11

All poetry excerpted from here

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4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Bill Corbett on Dec 11, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    This…

    “3. Hunted by tulips at three am”

    …is clearly the state motto of Texas.

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  • 2 Tim on Dec 11, 2007 at 10:28 pm

    If “Where blue eyeshadow has never gone before” doesn’t sound like Idaho, I don’t know what does…

    And when it comes to “Agriculture and commerce”, I assume we all immediately think of Jewel, right?

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  • 3 Steve-O on Dec 11, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    ‘And when it comes to “Agriculture and commerce”, I assume we all immediately think of Jewel, right?’

    More specifically, Animal Husbandry.

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  • 4 Allison on Mar 12, 2008 at 4:32 am

    This is a good one too

    http://mehtank.com/projects/iraq/index.php

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