Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Benn

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

Sylvia Plath

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

Rahul Dravid

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

Yohan Blake

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

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.

Zig Ziglar

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.