Anchor Quotes

235 quotes by 206 authors

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost… — Twyla Tharp
Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give… — Vincent Van Gogh
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when… — Samuel Smiles
Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many… — Ray Charles
Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her… — Tina Fey
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free. — Mark Millar
Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch… — Charles Yu
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. — David Ben-Gurion
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. — Frank Moore Colby
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… — Christopher Columbus
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. — Frederick Douglass
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite. — Dick Van Dyke
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. — Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. — Epictetus
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in… — Gordon B. Hinckley
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the… — Eric Liu
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know… — Ed Miliband

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