"The ship's boards were still sticky with new……" — Madeline Miller

"The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy."

— Madeline Miller

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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
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the… — Kirk Cameron
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me… — Kirk Cameron
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel… — Emile M. Cioran
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk… — Demi Lovato
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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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