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Quotes About Anchor

Eres la luz de mi oscuridad y el suelo bajo mis pies.
~ Kristin Hannah
And there came a point in my treatment where I couldn't see that end in sight. And that was the most challenging, I think, to know how to kind of anchor yourself when you're swimming in a sea of uncertainty.
~ Suleika Jaouad
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
~ Shane Claiborne
I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi.
~ Katrina Kaif
I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.
~ James Cash Penney
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
~ Conan O'Brien
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.
~ Kirk Cameron
ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.
~ Hannah Storm
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
~ Jessica Savitch
He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.
~ Nora Roberts
Early next morning there was a sound as of chains being drawn roughly overhead; the steady heart of the Euphrosyne slowly ceased to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetually, the same waves kept returning and washing against the sides of the ship.
~ Virginia Woolf
People like to think on marriage or love as something that weighs you down. Holds you back. Marriage is an anchor, but in the best ways it can be said.
~ Lauren Dane
Trinidad went first, slipping past Sugar Loaf and coming quietly to anchor in the harbor. Magellan had arrived in the New World.
~ Laurence Bergreen
On April 6, after more than three months of repairs, she finally weighed anchor and unfurled her sails. The ship carried a full load of spices, one thousand quintals of cloves—fifty tons!—more than enough to justify the expense of the entire voyage.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!
~ Laurence Galian
O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor!
~ Charles Baudelaire
He was the anchor in the water, while you rocked up and down on the waves.
~ James Patterson
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The ship which lies at anchor may sometimes be a little shaken—but never sinks; flesh and blood may have its fears and disquiets—but grace keeps them afloat. A Christian, having cast anchor in heaven, his heart never sinks.
~ Thomas Watson
We're not a city that has normally relied on major corporations. It doesn't mean that we don't want to have major anchor tenant corporations in our city. We love to have them, but for whatever reason we've been a city that's been very entrepreneurial.
~ Francis X. Suarez
I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.
~ Donna Brazile
When there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Maybe only an orphan can understand this, but we had been cut free from our anchor and the blow was crushing. We didn't know who we were, and more importantly, we didn't know whose we were -- forever proving that identity precedes purpose. You can't know who you are until you've settled whose you are. [Bones, to Murphy Shepherd, about himself and his brother Frank]
~ Charles Martin
When the beer came, I dipped a finger in it and wet down each corner of the paper napkin to anchor it, so it would not come up with the mug each time and make me appear ridiculous. I
~ Charles Portis