Jamaica Quotes · Page 4

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

— Kaniehtiio Horn

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

— Idris Elba

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

— Antony Sher

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

— Syd

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

— Koffee

Everything that I see around me in Jamaica comes out in my music.

— Koffee

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Looking back now, it was poverty really.

— Leon Edwards

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

— Jimmy Cliff

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

— Michael Franti

Growing up in Jamaica, we have access to a lot less. Not that we're, like, under a rock, but when it comes…

— Koffee

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in…

— Ziggy Marley

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will…

— Bob Marley

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in…

— Usain Bolt

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward…

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make…

— Michael Manley

My mum is Palestinian and my dad is British but worked all his life from the European Union for their Foreign Action…

— Layla Moran

If you go to Jamaica, you're going to these all-inclusive resorts where they're playing calypso and a bit of reggae or whatever.…

— Shane Smith

Although my family is originally from Jamaica, I grew up in a diverse community in south London. As my parents were immigrants…

— Ainsley Harriott

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived…

— Rick Atkinson

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

“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float…

— Crystal Evans

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six,…

— Diana Taurasi

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

— Cedella Marley

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

— Donovan Bailey

My parents grew up on different ends of the same street in St John's in Antigua.

— Andi Oliver

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

— Susan Straight

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

— Portia Simpson-Miller

Dad was 23 and Mum 19 when they arrived in the U.K. from Barbados in the 1950s.

— Nigel Benn

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

— Elephant Man

From Jamaica to the world. It's just love, it's just love, yeah.

— Bob Sinclar

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

— David Ortiz

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

— Ziggy Marley

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

— Lauryn Hill

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

— NLE Choppa

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

— Ziggy Marley

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

— Kreesha Turner

I would love to just keep on representing for Jamaica.

— Koffee

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

“the wait is just as bad because you can’t do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you.”

— Marlon James