Anchor Quotes

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

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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.

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.

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

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.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and 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. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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

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.

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.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

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 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.

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.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

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.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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

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

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

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

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.'

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.'

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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.