Silver Thread

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or thread:

    “I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    “One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)