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A cluster of ships rocked and tugged at anchor in the bay, sheltered somewhat by a reef.
— Emilio Salgari
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
My heart is the sad fact of time moving irreversibly forward. My heart is a demiurge, freely allegiant, an anchor in the void.
— Barry Smolin
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.
— James L. Jones
The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
— John Welch
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
— Brand Blanshard
To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
— Emile M. Cioran
Instead of finding her in the shadows, this visit would anchor something between them in rising daylight.
— Anne Mallory
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
— Josh Billings
trange things began to happen in the sea.Anchor buoys marking the dorymen's fishing trawl sank and then shot back to the surface. — Barbara Walsh
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
I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder ... I'm an average man ... with a truly extraordinary wife
— Jasper Fforde
I'm an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.
— Sarah Noffke
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
— Geraldo Rivera
He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.
— Claire Douglas
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
— Frederick William Robertson
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
— Jane Hamilton
Hope is the soul anchor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
From country to country as if it were an anchor, or the memory of dropping the first anchor.
— Kim Thuy
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
— Yvette Clarke
The anchor holds in spite of the storm
— Ray Boltz
Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlikeA lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mastIt shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye. — Kahlil Gibran
Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.
— Matt Greene
Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.
— Chris Pureka
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
— Bell Hooks
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
— Elizabeth Berg
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 precipice!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
— Dick Van Dyke
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.
— Amanda Grace
Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.
— Natasha Trethewey
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
— Emily Procter
The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
— Mark Millar
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
— William Hazlitt
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
— Samuel Rutherford
Mr. Tyler, drop the anchor. We are as close
— Wilbur Smith
Part of facing the unknown requires dropping an anchor of faith into the depths of God's sovereignty.
— James Stuart Bell Jr.
Hope gives the heart wings; thesoul, an anchor. — Janet Todd
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity, ...
— Robert Montgomery
You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring.
— Matt Petronzio
Positive thinking is the anchor of success.
— Euginia Herlihy
The past is the anchor that weighs us down.
— Don Trowden
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
— Frederick Douglass
The strongest anchor is hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles. — George Bailey
I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.
— Mike Wallace
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
— Jessica Savitch
Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
— Philip Pullman
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century
— Tom Acitelli
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
— Jeremiah Denton
Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
— James E. Faust
The body can decay right in front of you, go from a tool that expresses your will to an anchor dragging you down to hell.
— Daniel Polansky
The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.
— Robert Lee Morris
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
— Philippe Petit
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Up anchor! Up anchor!Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day. — Silas Weir Mitchell
The fascinating and awesome handiwork of God will anchor your power of appreciation on the shores of infinity.
— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
Books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval ...
— Will Schwalbe
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.
— Karen Hawkins
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you. — L.J. Shen
Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
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
The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
— Jim Harrison
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
— George H. W. Bush
A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
— Ross Perot Jr.
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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, Sr.
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
— Charles Dickens
Love is the pillar of the soul, and the anchor of the universe.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.
— Harry Belafonte
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
— Michael Connelly
Hope is the anchor for the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita