Top 418 Anchor Quotes & Sayings

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

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.

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

Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

Going from reporter to anchor is like going from wide receiver to quarterback. As anchor, you're running the plays and having the feel of the show - and knowing when to be more upbeat or slow down.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

In primetime cable television today, the anchor or anchors, with an "s", have to drive the hour. The anchor has to be skilled enough to take it over. So if I find that it's getting boring or I'm not getting information I want, I'll take it over. I'll do a soliloquy, I'll ask an outrageous question, I'll wave my arms in the air, I'll lift it myself. It's like a quarterback that's back to pass and nobody's open.

The anchor baby situation has got to stop.

Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.

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

A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

I am not a television actor. I'm an anchor.

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

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

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.

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

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.

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

In real life, there are right-wingers, there are anti-immigrant activists who want to overturn this constitutional right that we have to become Americans when we're born in this country. There's lots of people who believe that this has led to the phenomenon of the anchor babies. I am an anchor baby. My parents were able to receive their residency and citizenship because, I, a U.S. citizen child of theirs, was born in Los Angeles.

Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

You see how Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about "anchor babies"? Hillary tweeted, "They aren't called 'anchor babies.' They're called 'babies,'" which is a bit ironic given that Hillary's a big supporter of Planned Parenthood where "babies" are called "tissue mass" and, what, "unviable cells"? Whatever it is.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

The anchor holds in spite of the storm

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

I don't mind being the older guy that has to sacrifice and be the defensive anchor.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

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.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

Christ is the anchor of my life.

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

When we prioritize and focus... and that becomes the anchor... the relationship becomes the anchor... and it trumphs everything else... than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving... because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.

Hope gives the heart wings; the soul, an anchor.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

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

I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"

A home creates an anchor for the rest of your life.

Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held beliefs. To have such an anchor means being committed to a specific community. The only way Obama can overcome his sense of detachment and resolve his mother's dilemma is through a commitment to Christianity.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.