Chains Quotes
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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.
Sandra Bullock
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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
Sarah Dessen
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Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.
William P. Young
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
William Cowper
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Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
Stephen Graham
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The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
William Gurnall
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
Charlotte Bronte
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Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
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I wear the chains I forged in life.
Charles Dickens
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When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”
Gene Veith
