148 Quotes About Anchors

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.