Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.

It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!

Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.

The sea hath fish for every man.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.