Ancient Silk Road

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

“Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.”
—Dewitt Bodeen (1908–1988)

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

“What blazed ahead of you? A faked road block?
The red lamp swung, the sudden brakes and stalling
Engine, voices, heads hooded and the cold-nosed gun?”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)