Common Quote by Cesare Pavese

An anchor is something that keeps you here and happy and grounded. I have several.

— Cynthia Germanotta

“The symbol of the anchor is powerful because of what it stands for: hope. The book of Hebrews speaks of “this hope we have…

— Levi Lusko

Anchors are those people in your life who remind you of who you are - your values, aspirations, and worth - even when you…

— Vivek Murthy

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.…

— Margaret Atwood

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if…

— Anne Sexton

Sometimes you have to be your own anchor

— Anonymous

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let…

— Emma Goldman

The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

— Tony Harrison

They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures…

— John Wesley

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape…

— David Foster Wallace

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else…

— John Pearson