Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zora Neale Hurston

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

Zora Neale Hurston

The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

Zora Neale Hurston

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

Ziggy Marley

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

Ziggy Marley

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

Ziggy Marley

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

Ziggy Marley

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.

Yohan Blake

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

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.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Jorge Luis Borges

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Peter Stone

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

Kim Kardashian

I rented an island for [Kanye West] birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.

Edith Hamilton

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Robert Kiyosaki

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Mattie Stepanek

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Eve Ensler

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.