Quotes and Sayings About Anchors
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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 -
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
-- Ada Cambridge -
This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.
-- Al Kaline -
A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
-- Albert Brooks -
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.
-- Alvin Toffler -
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.
-- Amy B. Lyman -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
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 -
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Â Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life
-- Anodea Judith -
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
-- Antonio Machado -
Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
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 -
The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
-- Bear Grylls -
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
-- Bell Hooks -
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.
-- Bill McKibben -
The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
-- Bill Vaughan -
People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen. While some of what they say may be true, you should never allow them to get their negative anchors into your mind because, like them, you too will begin to sink. Next time this happens, throw them a life-line, and ask them what is good about their situation.
-- Bob Proctor -
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
-- Bram Stoker -
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 -
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 -
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.
-- Charles Lyell -
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.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.
-- Chris Pureka -
I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
-- Christiane Amanpour
