Jamaica famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
-- Brooke Burke -
With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?
-- Brooklyn Decker -
Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.
-- Carl Lewis -
Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
-- Chris Blackwell -
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
-- Damian Marley -
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
-- David Ortiz -
For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that — situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy — Jamaica has no reason to be poor,
-- Edward Seaga -
I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
-- Jeremy Northam -
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
-- Jimmy Buffett -
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
-- Laurie R. King -
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
-- Michael Franti -
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.
-- Michael Lee-Chin -
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
-- Michael Lee-Chin -
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
-- Michael Lee-Chin -
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.
-- Michael Lee-Chin -
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
-- Mos Def -
CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..
-- Sean Paul -
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
-- Tessanne Chin -
My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
-- Usain Bolt -
I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
-- Usain Bolt -
In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too
-- Usain Bolt -
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
-- Yara -
I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.
-- Yohan Blake -
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
-- Ziggy Marley -
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
-- Ziggy Marley -
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
-- Ziggy Marley -
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
-- Ziggy Marley -
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
-- Ziggy Marley -
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
-- Ziggy Marley -
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
-- Ziggy Marley -
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
-- Joey Badass -
Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.
-- Kreesha Turner -
Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.
-- Kreesha Turner -
Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.
-- Kreesha Turner -
Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.
-- Kreesha Turner -
I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.
-- Kreesha Turner -
I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.
-- Mac DeMarco -
I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
-- Maureen O'Hara -
I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos.
-- Storm Saulter -
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
-- Peter Blair Henry -
Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.
-- Sean Kingston -
I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.
-- Kwame Dawes -
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.
-- Linton Kwesi Johnson
