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Quotes About Jamaica

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.
~ Larry Harvey
I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
~ Portia Simpson-Miller
'Bloodlight and Bami' is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on stage and off. She follows her home to Jamaica, where the diva mellows, almost unconsciously, into a daughter, sister, and parishioner.
~ Wesley Morris
I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
~ Usain Bolt
Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.
~ Rita Marley
My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
~ Usain Bolt
Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
~ Michael Lee-Chin
I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
~ Jonathan Levine
My mom is from Jamaica, and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.
~ Shaggy
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
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
~ Ziggy Marley
I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.
~ Marlon James
I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.
~ Astro
My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.
~ Donovan Bailey
I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.
~ Dillian Whyte
When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.
~ Shaggy
I live in Kingston. When I tell people I live in Kingston, they start fearing for my life. People ask me if I have Internet in Jamaica. Like, seriously?
~ Shaggy
My father's from Jamaica.
~ Masego
Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.
~ Rita Marley
I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.
~ Dillian Whyte
I'm always in Jamaica in my fantasies. We have a home there, and it's my special spiritual place where I get re-nourished.
~ Mariette Hartley