Jamaica Quotes

Jamaica Quote of the day

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated.

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.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

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!

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.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

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.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.

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.

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.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

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.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

My family were from Jamaica.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

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.

I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.

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.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

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!

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

I live between Jamaica and Paris.

'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An African look with an American name.

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

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.

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.

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

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.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.