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.

Graham Chapman

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Danica McKellar

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

J. Taylor

It has a hot flavor taste. If you don't like a vinegary, spicy-hot flavor, then you won't like it,

William Allen White

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

Keating Holland

Part of it is his resume, part of it is his announcement bounce, part of it may simply be that he's a fresh face. He is, after all, the flavor of the month.

Jim Messina

Because Kenny mainly wrote folk songs, I was giving him some of my songs to see if we could get more of an edge, get more rock with it, and also rearranging some of his tunes to have different flavors other than folk stuff, ... So I had gotten a little more involved than I would have preferred to have, and also I realized that I couldn't just send him out to the world, that I should be there (too).

Aarti Sequeira

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

John Connolly

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

Jerry Swanson

You want to taste the earthy flavor of wild rice.

Daniel Boulud

This is my interpretation, ... but I think the flavors are not unlike what you would get if you were to visit there.

Stuart Fraser

The U.S. has been a graveyard for U.K. retailers, so investors are a little cautious. It could be that it wants to a get a flavor for the market through a small operation and then make a massive acquisition to get instant size.