Famous Jamaican Patois Quotes & Sayings

Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't. — Fredrik Backman

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us. — Bud Collins

Through the gospel, Jesus is making a people for Himself. We call this people the church, and it is made up of individuals from every tongue, tribe, race, and nation. The new covenant creates a new community - one that brings Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free all together - and makes a new humanity out of them as they are united in Christ by faith in Christ. But the gospel doesn't just transcend and transform our human institutions and divisions; it also transcends and transforms our circumstances. — Matt Chandler

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms. — Hans Arp

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean? — Larry McMurtry

We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about. — Nick Goepper

Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real. — Jamais Cascio

When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?' — Brie Larson

Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!
How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it!
There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it! — Georgette Heyer

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it. — Johannes Von Tepl

The two most beautiful words in any language are : I forgive. — Stephen King

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor. — Al Koran

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation. — Kilroy J. Oldster