"Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." - Sarah Kay

"That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs. But what a ship is... is freedom." - Pirates of the Caribbean

"For whatever we lose, like a you or a me, it’s always ourselves we find in the sea." - E. E. Cummings

"Don't set sail on someone else's star." - African proverb

"Wir können den Wind nicht ändern, aber die Segel anders setzen."

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." - African proverb

"An entire water of sea can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similary, negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you."

"No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning." - Native American Proverb

"Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money." - Cree proverb

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it has its pearls too." - Vincent Van Gogh

"We were kissed by poems, taken away by seas of prose." - Rudolph Vitkauskas

"We both drowned under the waves of words we weren't saying." - Ben Mawfield

"People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim." - African proverb

"Stille Wasser sind tief. Tiefe Wasser sind kalt."

"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you. It is you who belong to this land."