Anchors Quotes - Page 9

• Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
  Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

  George Bailey

  Airplane, Sound, Three

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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Night, Ice

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Women, Rocks, Two

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• ... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

  Ben Jonson

  Sea, Needs, Pilots

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

  Jon Stewart

  Wow, Has Beens, Secretary

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• Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

  Bell Hooks

  Fall, Love Is, Knowing Love

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• The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

  Walter Mosley

  Running, Dream, Fear

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• Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Art, Folly

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.250

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• I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Sea, Venture

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

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• The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

  Megyn Kelly

  Hard Times, Giving, News

  "Megyn Kelly: 'I'm a straight news anchor'". www.politico.com. December 10, 2013.

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• Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Sea, Spirit

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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• We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

  Dick Morris

  Cousin, War, Taken

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• Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Death, Love Is, Dear Ones

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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• I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

  Anderson Cooper

  Anchorman, Believe, People

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• I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Knowing, Fading Away

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• Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Heart, People

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

  Jana Kramer

  Sports, Ifs

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

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• The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

  Steve King

  Country, Baby, Law

  "Steve King Introduces Bill To Stop ‘Anchor Babies’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Home, Years

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• I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Good Life, Lying

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• 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

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• 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.

  Hector Tobar

  Country, Baby, Children

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Three, Four, Paragraph

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