Ancient Silk Road

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

    Here is the ancient floor,
    Footworn and hollowed and thin
    Here was the former door
    Where the dead feet walked in.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    Her fortune, too, lies there,
    Converted into cool hard steel
    And right red velvet lining;
    While over her tan impassivity
    Shot silk is shining.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)