Anchors Quotes

• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Safety

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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

  Janet Todd

  Heart, Wings, Giving

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• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

  David Brinkley

  Matter, Cameras, Sitting

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

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Dream, Venture, Sail

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

  James MacDonald

  Trust, God, Mean

  James MacDonald (2010). “10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

  Anderson Cooper

  Kissing, Power, People

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• Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Care, Casts

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics

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• I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

  Corin Nemec

  Relationship, Real, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jessica Savitch

  Focus, News, News Anchors

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Sea

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on

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• 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

  Crazy, Men, News

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• When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

  Jessica Savitch

  News, Literature, Firsts

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

  Tina Brown

  Hustle, Logistics, Tvs

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• Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

  Anne Perry

  Skills, People, Welcome

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• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

  Gunther Schuller

  Past, Important, Way

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• I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

  Linda Vester

  Thinking, Luxury, Numbers

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• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  Harold Brodkey

  New York, Thinking, Reputation

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• Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

  Catherine Crier

  Real, Phones, People

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• On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

  William Bligh

  Morning, Two, Pay

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  Aaron McGruder

  Patriotic, Flags, News

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• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

  John Stossel

  Years, Wanted

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• A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

  Matthew Barney

  Sports, Order, Trying

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• To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

  Tina Brown

  Winning, Feels, Seems

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• Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

  Brand Blanshard

  Cutting, Crafts, May

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge

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• 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

  Abiding Faith, Confusion, Conflict

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