Quotes About Anchor

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

The bassist -- always the bassist.

And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

Where identity is not fixed, performance becomes a floating anchor." And could I perform! Making the unreal seem real, the sad seem happy, hoping that somewhere along the way it would all work out, that I would discover who I was. Meantime I had an anchor.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfold know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

The sense of being connected somewhere is an important anchor in our lives. Without it, we can feel disconnected, lost, and ungrounded in the world. This is sometimes reflected in images of floating in a dark space, like an astronaut whose connecting cord is broken. Others describe it as drifting at sea, like a piece of flotsam. This feeling is often carried throughout life unless efforts are made to change the situation.

Consciousness of innocence is an excellent anchor, no doubt. But what good is an anchor after the ship has sunk?

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.

Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.

So, I am concentrating more on the batting aspect of my game and trying to get used to playing the anchor role.

The narrative of the Bible is anchored to the fact that God became a man so He could prove how much He loves us.