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A cluster of ships rocked and tugged at anchor in the bay, sheltered somewhat by a reef. — Emilio Salgari

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark. — T.A. Cline

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

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. — Pythagoras

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 best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson

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

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself — Lao-Tzu

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 unlike
A 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 mast
It 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

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. — S.J. Watson

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 anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole. — Nelson Mandela

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

As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away. — J.R. Ward

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.

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life — Anodea Judith

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision. — Ralph Nader

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today. — R.C. Sproul

Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, 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

It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds. — Billy Graham

Positive thinking is the anchor of success. — Euginia Herlihy

The past is the anchor that weighs us down. — Don Trowden

19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. — Anonymous

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

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. — Paul

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

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

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

In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship. — Dean Koontz

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

The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle — Saul Williams

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

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world. — Erma Bombeck

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