Ancient Silk Road

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

    It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    All-destroying sword-blade still
    Carried by the wandering fool.
    Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
    Beauty and fool together laid.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
    L. Frank Baum (1856–1919)