Ancient Silk Road

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

    “Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
    She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
    And she is dying piecemeal
    of a sort of emotional anemia.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)