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)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “[T]he temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)