Anchors Quotes - Page 2

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

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Childhood, Deep Life

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Hope, Giving

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• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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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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• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Freedom, Intellectual, Independence

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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• Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anxiety, Care, Casts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

  Ada Cambridge

  Compass, Beacons

  Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria

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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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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

  Publilius Syrus

  Two, Safety, Aviation

  "Maxims". 119,

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• I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

  Shepard Smith

  Focus, Groups, Wonder

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• Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.

  Clinton Presba Anderson

  Oil, Knowing, Land

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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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• The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

  Roone Arledge

  Thinking, Differences, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

  Jay Leno

  White, House, Actors

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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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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Islands

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  Ed Bradley

  Growing Up, Kids, Sitting

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