Anchor Quotes

235 Anchor quotes by 206 unique authors

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun… — Emma Donoghue
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their… — Janette Turner Hospital
We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the… — Herman Melville
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair. — Bell Hooks
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… — Walter Mosley
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt
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… — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Pete Gill
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… — John Boyle O'Reilly
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… — Meghan O'Rourke
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… — Albert Schweitzer
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me. — Nik Wallenda
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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… — Randy Wayne White
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… — Anderson Cooper
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… — Augustus William Hare
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… — Steve King
A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. — Epictetus
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about… — Raymond B. Fosdick
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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