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

Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.

The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.