Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

“The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I wonder how far down the road he’s got.
He’s watching from the woods as like as not.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)