#anchor

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! ↗

— Gene Cernan

#anchors #background #could #five #four

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. ↗

— Jay Leno

#call #correspondents #do you know #house #know

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

#anchor #country #democratic #governance #most

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

— John Stossel

#i #never #suddenly #wanted #years

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. ↗

— Gaston Caperton

#hope #increasing #maintained #our #participation

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#any #flags #i #lapels #news

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#arrival #attachment #belonging #completion #fullfilment

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. ↗

— Christian Bale

#backpack #been #bit #breath #change