Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn’t write my first song till I was 35.
Spirituality is an anchor for me and guides me through life.
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.
Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of ‘anchor babies’ must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.
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.
I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.
I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
The ‘anchor baby’ thing needs to be fixed… Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It’s wrong, and it’s immoral.
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as possible, allowing the natural winds and waves to push the plastic into the system.
Over the years I’ve been honored to anchor live coverage of E3 for TV networks like G4 and Spike.
Most people would think if you’re the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids – or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
You gotta know that you’re better than anybody, ’cause to me, if you don’t go in like that, you’re gonna lose! They’re gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk – whatever. You’ve got to go in believing, ‘I can do this better than anybody.’
Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would ‘borrow’ my forecast from The Weather Channel.
‘Commonwealth’ is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.
As an anchor, I want to make sure we’re exploring all angles on a story. The viewer can make up their own mind.
TDP had to join hands with the Congress given the need for a major anchor party in the front against the BJP.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
And there came a point in my treatment where I couldn’t see that end in sight. And that was the most challenging, I think, to know how to kind of anchor yourself when you’re swimming in a sea of uncertainty.
When I ran the anchor leg to a gold medal with my Canadian teammates Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, and Robert Esmie in the 4×100-metre relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, it was my responsibility to motivate the guys as unofficial captain and leader.
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