Jamaica Quotes · Page 2

I live between Jamaica and Paris.

— Jimmy Cliff

I wanted a fake wedding in Jamaica.

— Mandy Moore

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

— Mireille Enos

“Which distressed that Old Man of Jamaica. nonsense”

— Edward Lear

Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

— Robert Whittaker

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

— Bob Marley

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

— Damian Marley

Although Jamaica and Panama are great places to visit I could never call them home.

— Colin Jackson

Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.

— Rita Marley

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

— Herbie Mann

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

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

— Grace Jones

In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British…

— Theo Paphitis

“As this suggests, Jamaica was at once brutally divided by racial difference and violence, and in some respects also a cosmopolitan, even…

— Linda Colley

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

— Damian Marley

Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you…

— Jimmy Buffett

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back…

— French Stewart

“I hear Jamaica is beautiful this time of year. Too bad the four of you can’t EVER go back there. Missed you!…

— Sara Shepard

Dedicate this for the ladies Mexico, the Westside Eastside, New York London. How could I forget about Jamaica?

— Elephant Man

In 1881, my dad's grandparents, who were Norwegian farmers, immigrated to the United States - the same year my great grandfather from…

— Deb Haaland

In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In…

— Sadie Jones

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And…

— Angela Bowie

If you've ever been to Jamaica and experienced Fern Gully - I don't even know how many miles it is - but…

— Cedella Marley

Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we…

— Mark McMorris

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they…

— Damian Marley

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I…

— Harvey Weinstein

I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I…

— Serena Williams

If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it any less. When I…

— Fiona Zedde

“The people who don't give you a standing ovation for the hurdles you cross are just afraid that you might win the…

— Crystal Evans

“They were both comparative mirrors of each other. It was clear to her now more than he had used her and she…

— Crystal Evans

Everybody thought that Titanic was the most romantic movie ever. A story about two teenagers who knew each other for three days.…

— Greg Giraldo

“The problems that we have in Jamaica are not fundamentally economical but mental, if we changed the way we saw the world…

— Crystal Evans

My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.

— Chris Blackwell

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

— Gioconda Belli

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

— Yohan Blake

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

— Wayne Messam

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

— Kreesha Turner

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

— Mac DeMarco