Quotes of: Jamaica Keyword

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

Ziggy Marley

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

Usain Bolt

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

Ziggy Marley

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

Ziggy Marley

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

Portia Simpson-Miller

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

Chris Blackwell

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

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

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

Michael Franti

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

Matthew Morrison

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

Sean Paul

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

Debi Mazar

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

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

Peter Blair Henry

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

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Laurie R. King

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 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

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

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.

Grace Jones