Jamaica Quotes · Page 2

I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.

— Astro

Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.

— Rita Marley

Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.

— Eve

My earliest memory of dancing is that I won a dance contest in Jamaica when I was 6.

— NLE Choppa

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

— Ziggy Marley

I was brought up in Jamaica when people had to occupy themselves and entertain each other.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I would love to just keep on representing for Jamaica.

— Koffee

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

— Kreesha Turner

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

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team.…

— Bob Beamon

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it…

— Michael Lee-Chin

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

— Linda Colley

The place is really exceptional and I am fascinated and inspired, as Nagaland with its lush greenery and picturesque mountains as well…

— Liz Mitchell

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had…

— Jeremy Northam

When you're playing outside in Jamaica and you hear gunshots, you don't run and hide. You just look, and if it's nowhere…

— Leon Edwards

I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria.

— Lady Colin Campbell

A family holiday to Jamaica in 2004 - my uncle was getting married out there, and it was the first holiday I'd…

— Alesha Dixon

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved…

— Mel Giedroyc

I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a…

— Jimmy Cliff

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

— Cedella Marley

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

— Serena Williams

I actually had nuggets and mostly Asian food when I was at the Olympics. But as soon as I got back to…

— Usain Bolt

Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and…

— Joe Torry

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

— Ziggy Marley

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

— Jimmy Cliff

My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.

— Donovan Bailey

Dancing a Jamaica middle name. Visa fi go a England a strain Immigration a call out yuh name.

— Elephant Man

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

— Portia Simpson-Miller

My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.

— Susan Straight

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

— Philomena Kwao

I miss the weather when I'm not in Jamaica. I hate it when it's cold.

— Koffee

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

— Antony Sher

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

— Idris Elba

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

— Usain Bolt

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.

— John Barnes

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

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

— Kreesha Turner

Ever proud to represent Jamaica achieving new levels in any endeavor.

— Skip Marley

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

— Bob Marley