Ancient Silk Road

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

    No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.
    Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)

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

    Through the hollow globe, a ring
    of frayed rusty scrapiron,
    is it the sea that shines?
    Is it a road at the world’s edge?
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)