Anchor Quotations

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.

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.

The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me.

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.'

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

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 have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.

I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi.

The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

I was really trying to anchor down the band. We should explore this new song, but we've got to have a certain element that will have our old fans listening and enjoying it while gaining a whole bunch of new fans. I was definitely worried. But first and foremost we wanted to write songs that did inspire us. That was the most important part because we didn't want to write an album that we just hated before it even came out.

One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an authority on her own. Since we learn by example, there's no telling where that iconic image may lead.

Maybe the past is an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you are to become who you will be.

When you combine experienced guys who have gotten a lot of sacks in their career together, it just means more sacks for everybody. As a defensive front, we have the experience so we have to be the anchor of this team.

Most people are unaware of how big an event the World Cup is, or of its ability to generate advertising revenue. What the World Cup does is help anchor a franchise and lock-in longer term advertisers.

She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that.

So, I was in a sense like a news anchor while reporters were out there trying to gather the information. That's what happened initially anyway.

Secure outside items, garbage cans, toys and anything else that could become a damaging object in the air. Anchor them securely or bring them indoors.

She's the anchor of our team. She had the best defensive ability of any player I know of.

She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an evening network newscast is so long overdue that it can hardly be regarded as making a powerful statement. ... CBS had a chance to revolutionize the evening news by totally remaking the show. Instead, they are putting a new person into an old, boring format.

She's gotten real strong, and she's swinging the bat really well. She's going to anchor our infield this season.

She's really the anchor of our defense. She's stepping up and playing consistently. We wouldn't have won our three games if it wasn't for her and Friday's loss would have been uglier.

He is to ABC what Bob Schieffer is to CBS, someone who has been in the shadow of the main anchor for years, and fully qualified to step in.

I can't see any good reason for them to be in the restaurant business. It's an anchor pulling through the sand at the bottom of the ocean.

Having Shaun and Hudson and Matt anchor the team is very comforting. To have a setter that can get all the hitters going early in a match will be huge for us. We've got weapons this year, and we've just got to use them.

We're pleased to have reached an agreement with Brenden for the next two seasons. He's a valuable part of this club's future and we expect he will continue to anchor our young core of players. We're very excited to have him in the fold.

He was our anchor and played the best game I've seen him play in three years here. If we can get that type of performance every night, we'll be in great shape.

He was just coming into his own. He was really starting to hit, and he's been an equalizer defensively in center field. He's the anchor out in the outfield, so it's going to be a big loss.

He was the anchor of our line last year, ... He's always been mentally tough. That's why he was able to play as a sophomore. He's just so tough that he's able to put up with the things that go along with it, tough practices and coaching and all of that.

He was the anchor of our line last year. He's always been mentally tough. That's why he was able to play as a sophomore. He's just so tough that he's able to put up with the things that go along with it, tough practices and coaching and all of that.

If the anchor is facing the outside, people will play to that.

He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

He's figured out how we've wanted him to play all year, and that's anchor the middle and change shots and make it very difficult for people to shoot around the basket. He has been a factor now in the last few games defensively.

That area could anchor a very important development corridor stretching from Indianapolis Boulevard to Five Points.

Our office worked hard with Federal Realty, encouraging them to first buy the center and then upgrade it. Since Federal Realty has taken ownership, the center has been totally rehabilitated, landscaping has been added, new quality anchor tenants have come, new buildings have been built, and finally the center is pedestrian friendly.

It is far too premature for us to even think about that. Charlie and Elizabeth will continue to anchor the broadcast.

I thought no matter who I ran against in that anchor that I couldn't be blown away. I felt I could run with all of them. But every single leg of this relay was awesome. We all depended on each other. It takes four to run a relay.

I think it would be helpful that we anchor it for a period of time. We could build up some kind of brand loyalty and recognition for where our tournament is located.

I think the chairs of the (Incline Vision) subcommittees are really the anchor people that can effectively communicate information back to their subgroups and that can clearly define what they need and what they have accomplished.

Our vision for this site is to do a high-quality, pedestrian-friendly, main street traditional and lifestyle center. It will be more of a destination. Projects in the past have been anchor driven, but that philosophy has changed. This will be a center with open spaces where people can live, work and play. Our experience is your anchor. We are not just going out for that anchor store.

I think he's the anchor of our defense, not only with his ability to make plays, but with his leadership. I really believe guys look to him for advice, and he gets to balls in the outfield that other kids wouldn't have a chance of getting to.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It could end up being a different way of looking at anchor space.

Trevor is the anchor of this (pitching) staff. It's good to have him back. I always thought over the winter --- I know there was a lot of back and forth ---- but deep down, I always felt he'd be back. He's been here such a long time, and he's such a mainstay for us. I'm glad that he's here.

The amount of money that we pay to the anchor will not have any effect on the amount of money we spend on other resources. There is not a direct comparison between how much money we pay an anchor person or a correspondent of CBS News and our resources around the world.

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.

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

We couldn't be more excited about working again with Mel and his team. This is one of the most original and unique scripts we've ever had the opportunity to read recently, and we plan for this to be an anchor of our summer schedule.

We dropped anchor for a while to wait out the weather. But it got worse. We don't feel very good about this. We have put a lot of efforts behind this, but we can't beat the weather.

We had what we call ' lip flap' like in the old kung fu movies the anchor would be talking to a reporter in the field, and the audio didn't match their mouths moving.

We are talking to four different casino companies and three nationally recognized retail developers. We have offers from some of them. However, we have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

Today's anchor handles breaking news. They do that live. If they don't know what they're talking about, the viewer will know. These are not people reading scripts.

There is a U-shaped footing around the base of the shelter, so that when we pour wet concrete on the unit they anchor firmly in the ground. Then we continue to pour concrete -- up to 12,000 pounds of concrete.

We are pleased Shep will become a permanent fixture on Fox News Radio. He is a star anchor and reporter and listeners will now be able to hear his familiar voice on both television and radio.

We have counted on customers realizing they need big processors to anchor their Web serving e-commerce applications, and that anticipation appears to be paying off,

Welcome to the exciting world of hurricane journalism! While your highly paid colleagues on the anchor desk are broadcasting from the dry safety of a heavily fortified television studio, you and your camera crew will be out in the maw of the storm, risking your lives for no good reason.

We asked Charles to be the anchor in the middle for our team. He is a tenacious and aggressive defender and he would deny his opponent in the middle and also has great defensive skills.

We will do some 'build it and they will come' in some of our markets, but for the most part, we are looking for anchor tenants like a cellular carrier or large enterprise customer in a particular market. Once we sign a deal with a big customer, then we can go in and begin to look at building out additional infrastructure.

We keep trying to find a kind of home for this. How do we anchor this?

We've used some money to get a dog carrier for Beans and also a leash and collar with the Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them.

We're looking for this to be a world class destination resort. We have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It's their anchor fishery.

What he did down in New Orleans was really an extraordinary accomplishment, which goes way beyond what we would expect a news anchor to do, ... He not only reported what was going on, he did not allow other people to minimize or mischaracterize what was happening.

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.

We are anxiously awaiting Bob Woodruff coming back to work as soon as he is able. That is our working assumption, that he will be back and he will be back as anchor of 'World News Tonight.

Every ship has an anchor to hold it in place, and Casey is the anchor of our defensive line. Everything comes from him, he is the center of everything. If he gets beat, everything seems to slip around him. We all thought he got snubbed when he was named an alternate because we felt he should have been there, so this is a great thing for him.

'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.

is the anchor for the transatlantic policy dialogue.

When you have an anchor there, ... he can look under the covers of a story in a way an anchor can't from a studio.

The very idea of the entire nation sitting around and waiting to see if a handful of judges overturn traditional marriage with a nonchalant wave of the hand is absurd. We need to anchor marriage in a constitutional amendment, and we need to do it soon.

You go anchor some place and try to relax and someone comes by and they may not realize how large their wake is. You're rolling back and forth and your non-alcoholic beverages are spilling.

We've got a lot of key reserves coming back, and a lot of young players waiting to move up. I feel like we're going to be the anchor of the team.

Everything has been put into question, first by the opposition and second by the opposition to Hashimoto within the LDP. That means delay, no resolute policy action, and that means that for stocks and the yen, there is no anchor of hope.

A TV anchor has as much job security as a basketball coach.

As coaches I think we have felt that wherever it lands it would be helpful to anchor it for a period of time, whether it's five or even a few years beyond that. I think we felt that we could build up some type of brand loyalty in a relation to where our tournament is.

As coaches, we have really felt wherever it lands to anchor it for a period of time, whether it's five or a few years beyond that. We felt that we can build up some kind of brand loyalty and recognition to where our tournament is located.

A lot of people spent a lot of time and worked very, very hard. I think it's excellent because the library is the anchor of the community.

Erik Adams is probably one of our most improved players from the start of camp to where we are today. He's heavily relied upon. He's been a real anchor for our back end, and he ads an offensive threat as well.

yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad news. When they flip on the TV, they want to get AWAY from their problems, not hear about people getting thrown overboard tied to their boat anchor or working out so they can strangle innocent kids faster and better.

We had a discussion about the future. It became clear they were looking in a different direction as far as the main anchor goes.

This will hopefully be the anchor of a new biomedical corridor in the region, where the nation's most cutting-edge research is conducted by some of the brightest minds in science.

I used to think I would never see a woman anchor the network evening news alone in my lifetime. This was the last vestige of male dominance. She already accomplished the unthinkable...just by getting the job.

This FTA with the U.S. is also intriguing because I think it could be an anchor that could force Korea to deregulate the economy and liberalize it further.

This building will democratize dance by making it physically and financially accessible to all of Austin up to six days every week, instead of only five weekends a year. It will transform Ballet Austin and be the first anchor of the new downtown arts and entertainment district.

This can anchor the emergence of a whole new medical campus. This whole area's going to take off.

This is easily perceived as the fourth 20-year-plus anchor stepping aside, and that's not the case, ... A number of people said once Ted goes, there goes 'Nightline.'

In doing that, we could showcase our preservation projects, while at the same time create an anchor in a blighted neighborhood and ... give ourselves some space to work in.

I'm thinking about it. I'm going to sit down with my family and with Anchor Bay people.

If I were making the decision, I imagine Charlie would anchor for another five or six years, ... they could get a 20-year ride, assuming TV news lasts another 20 years.

Swimming isn't the most thrilling sport in the world, far from it; it's a damn bore most of the time, but it does make you healthy and gives you a good body. I finished first as the anchor man in the final, decisive relay against Andover, to become an athletic mini-hero for about 15 minutes.

Swimming the anchor it comes down to being touched out or not. You have to step it up. It's very stressful. If you get touched out you feel like you let the entire team down. I knew this was our last chance, I wasn't going to let up.

Sydney proved last year she was one of the best defensive players in the Pac-10. She will anchor our defense and provides a lot of energy.

The biggest lesson for us was, keep your anchor down there for the storm and big stories,

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

It's really hard to do justice to your family and I want to give 100 percent to my marriage and family. So being an anchor would allow me to do that.

It's been tough for him. Let's face it: It's a big transition from the anchor chair, no matter where you go. But he's really working hard at it. It's just going to take some time to get used to not doing what he had been doing in such a prominent place for so long.

It's been kind of sad to see it empty for so long. It's been a major anchor to the Old Town community in all directions.