“Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.” NationsPrinciplesBreakBirthDiedBraveryIndependenceBraveBritishTyrannyChainsDeclarationFoldsDeclaration Of IndependenceChains That Bind Author:Jim Gerlach
“Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.” GivingMomentsNextInfluenceBirthEnlightenmentChainsWheelsPerpetualBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.” ThinkingGivingFeelsHeartMayMotherOrderChallengesBreakRiskTeachingBirthMessagesLosingDaughterConvincedDestroyedChainsWho We AreGrandmotherFierceOnly LoveBittersweetMother And DaughterTeaching And LearningLove And TrustIndelibleGreat GrandmotherPrehistory Author:Alice Walker
“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.” YearsFirstsCitiesFireFlowerHairBirthSpringGardenGoldRoseLeavingChainsThis LifeNew YearValentineDaisiesNew Years EveAcresTinBloomingOrchidsFire EscapesTin CansCrocuses Author:Jean Hersey
“Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.” SelfBirthEternalCharityWesternChainsDefinedBrokeMeritProductiveStationsSatisfyingBehalfBoundlessWestern Society Author:Ibn Warraq
“Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met Jesus - not in a church or on a camp or through people, but alone in my bedroom with an open Bible and a tangible revelation that the Son of God was not only real, but alive and awesome and stronger than the chains that bound me.” PeopleRealJesusBornChurchAliveSonBirthMetsStrongerBoundsChainsRevelationsCampsBedroomTangibleCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Brooke Fraser
“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.” VirtueBirthVicesKarmaChainsWheelsDragRebirthForgedBirth And DeathBad KarmaGood Karma Book:Karma Source: Karma
“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.” MenFirstsMatterEarthNumbersRaceBehindsRightsBloodCenturyBrotherBirthKingsNo Matter WhatChainsBrokeThreshold Book:Anthem Source: Anthem