Jamaica Quotes

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
Usain Bolt

My family were from Jamaica.
Diane Abbott

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def

Life, Love, Music

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
Harvey Weinstein

Family, Care, Black

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

Good, Experience, Different

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

Live, Away, While

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

America, American, Either

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

Person, Strange, Place

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
Ziggy Marley

America, Problems, Everywhere

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
Ziggy Marley

Time, Teacher, Last

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

Problems, Paradise

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.
Nicki Minaj

Girl, Black, Young

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
Brooke Burke

Game, Show, United

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

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
Maureen O'Hara

Star, Knew, Inn

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

Time, Remember, Kid

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.
David Oyelowo

Great, Done, Small

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

Time, Three, Four

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
Dave Van Ronk

Education, School, After

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

Great, Nice, Down

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
Brooklyn Decker

Parents, Pretty, Big

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
Bob Beamon

School, Said, Team

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