Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or trains:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)