Ancient Silk Road

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

    At length they all to merry London came,
    To merry London, my most kindly nurse,
    That to me gave this life’s first native source;
    Though from another place I take my name,
    An house of ancient fame.
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

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

    Ev’ry road I walk along I’ve walked along with you.
    Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)