Family Being Your Anchor Quotes

Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life; no big deal! Continue your life because neither unhappiness nor happiness drop anchor in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. ~ David Brinkley

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus. ~ Jessica Savitch

Do you have an anchor? I have found that a solid anchor is indispensable to one who intends to live life fully. To have an anchor is to be centered and well grounded. It is to have a vital spiritual base. ~ Steve Goodier

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. ~ Russell Pearce

In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God. ~ C. JoyBell C.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite. ~ Jill Abramson

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. ~ Anderson Cooper

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.' ~ Elizabeth Vargas

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

From country to country as if it were an anchor, or the memory of dropping the first anchor. ~ Kim Thuy

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all. ~ Rainbow Rowell

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

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea. ~ Karen Hawkins

It's a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America. ~ Jorge Ramos

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. ~ Michael Sheen

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize. ~ Deborah Norville

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control. ~ Katie Kacvinsky

Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy. ~ Adam Michnik

You're stronger than us. Once you find your anchor never let go of it. No matter what. ~ John Marrs

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day. ~ Silas Weir Mitchell

Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking. ~ Cyrus Broacha

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate. ~ Asa Don Brown

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it. ~ Gayle Gardner

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing. ~ Philippe Petit

For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity. ~ Kirk Cameron

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me. ~ Nik Wallenda

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show. ~ Jessica Savitch

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

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest ~ Dean Koontz

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel. ~ Emily Procter

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. ~ Gail Carriger

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria. ~ Ed Royce

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. ~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Hope is the anchor of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

'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. ~ Romesh Gunesekera

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing. ~ Virgil Goode

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. ~ Linda Cardellini

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. ~ James L. Jones

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

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family. ~ Patrick Dempsey

For this brief moment, he was the anchor and I was the boat caught in my sea of doubt and despair until we were back in his house where everything seemed to be so ordinary. ~ Meara O'Hara

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

Be strong. Even when you can't be. ~ Saim .A. Cheeda

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? ~ Randy Wayne White

Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done. ~ Jools Holland

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.

In my personal recovery, mindfulness has helped me to become aware of my trauma responses and given me an anchor to stay present when I have been triggered. Being able to feel my triggers without reacting must be largely credited to learning to anchor myself in my body through mindful body scan meditation. ~ Christopher Dines

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The best way to feel family is being part of it. ~ Valgame

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot. ~ Ashton Kutcher

My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things. ~ Dante Hall

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that. ~ Jana Kramer

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. ~ LaToya London

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one. ~ John Stossel

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. ~ Brad Henry

My nation is my family. And family is the basis of my inner being, the solid ground on which I stand… If family breaks from the inside, it leads to complete destruction… I have a mission… Once, when my nation, my family, needs me, I must be there… ~ Tamuna Tsertsvadze

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. ~ Emile M. Cioran

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. ~ Eric Liu

A family needs a father to anchor it. ~ L. Tom Perry

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. ~ Matthew Barney

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. ~ Bobby Darin

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ~ Joseph Kesselring

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. ~ William J. Clinton

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time. ~ Eric Fellner

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. ~ Kenneth Koch

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point. ~ Rob Sheffield

A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that? ~ Anthony Edwards

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back. ~ Tim Roth

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' ~ Conan O'Brien

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible. ~ David Beckham

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. ~ Willie Stargell

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life. ~ Michael Vick

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good ~ Jackie Ballard

All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home. ~ Emily March

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is. ~ Madonna

The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family ... may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.' ~ David O. McKay

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. ~ Christopher Columbus

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

Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises. ~ Eckhart Tolle

When we prioritize and focus and that becomes the anchor the relationship becomes the anchor and it trumphs everything else than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child. ~ Shefali Tsabary

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! ~ Cyndi Lauper

Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it's your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you're a nobody. ~ Lauren Groff

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon. ~ Catherine Crier

The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family. ~ Richard Rodriguez

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer. ~ Lindsay Price

I love being here, Evelyn, don't think that I don't. Yes, I do miss being in New York, but being with a great family for Christmas is the best thing any guy could get. It's been the best year I've had for a quite a long time. ~ R.A. Rooney

I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!" ~ Walter Cronkite

Amos liked the idea of an adjust-and-anchor heuristic as a strategy for estimating uncertain quantities: start from an anchoring number, assess whether it is too high or too low, and gradually adjust your estimate by mentally "moving" from the anchor. The adjustment typically ends prematurely, because people stop when they are no longer certain that they should move farther. ~ Daniel Kahneman

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. ~ Tom Hardy

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard. ~ James Daly