"I walk up a dune to a beach……" — A. A. Gill

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to… - A. A. Gill

"I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath."

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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away… — Ezra Taft Benson
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by… — June Hunt
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them… — Ulysses S. Grant
A babe is a mother's anchor. — Henry Ward Beecher

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