A Quote by L. Tom Perry

A family needs a father to anchor it.

L. Tom Perry

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L. Tom Perry
August 5, 1922 - May 30, 2015

The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.

Russell Pearce

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Yvette Clarke

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Yvette Clarke

The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.

Tom Brokaw

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

Gale Harold

Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.

Jeffrey R. Holland

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.

Patrick Wilson

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

Lee Daniels

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

Richie Havens

One needs to be gregarious and spontaneous to be a good anchor. I am working on that.

Soham Chakraborty

I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.

Christy Turlington

Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

Kate Middleton

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jessica Savitch

One of the things I'm most proud of over the years, is time management and balancing family and work. Everyday, you just look at what needs to be done and do that, what needs to be done. That includes the idea that family is first, kids are first and when you're with the family, put the phone down, look them right in the eye.

Brian Michael Bendis

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

Karen Hawkins

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