Top 100 Kingston Quotes
#1. King Kofi Kingston, that does have a nice ring to it. But not so much the initials, though.
CM Punk
#2. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
Marlon James
#3. He turns to me and blinks. "You need to go to Kingston and I need the feathers of a snowy owl." He says it so plainly, so flat, like we're speaking about pizza toppings.
Anonymous
#4. King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.
CM Punk
#5. And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
Betty Hill
#6. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
Desmond Dekker
#7. I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#8. I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#9. I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For
Marlon James
#10. I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
Jimmy Cliff
#11. When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".
Timothy B. Schmit
#12. The part of River Song, the Doctor's companion in his eleventh incarnation, was originally offered to Kate Winslet. She turned it down and the part went to Alex Kingston.
Andy Bell
#13. The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
George Grove
#14. Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston's in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our relationship with the planet.
Samantha Trenoweth
#15. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
#16. A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
Ronnie Corbett
#17. Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.
Marlon James
#18. I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Ziggy Marley
#19. I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.
Jess Row
#20. The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of occasional sexual harrassment with genuine affection. She's such a terrific actress and such a lovely person.
Paul McCrane
#21. Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.
Miranda Liasson
#22. My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
Dan Aykroyd
#23. Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.
Gwen Stefani
#25. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#26. We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#27. Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
Jack Kingston
#30. I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.
Alex Kingston
#31. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.
Margo Kingston
#32. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#34. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
Alex Kingston
#35. When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#36. In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
Jack Kingston
#37. Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
Karen Kingston
#38. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#39. It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#40. My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.
Sean Kingston
#42. There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
Jack Kingston
#43. I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#44. There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#45. Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
Jack Kingston
#46. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#47. Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#48. It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Jack Kingston
#49. Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#50. So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Jack Kingston
#51. Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#52. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#53. No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).
Margo Kingston
#55. But here's the thing
no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you "need".
Karen Kingston
#56. Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.
Sean Kingston
#57. If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
Lauren Oliver
#58. I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
Alex Kingston
#59. Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
Jack Kingston
#60. If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.
Margo Kingston
#61. People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#62. Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston
#63. But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#64. When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.
Karen Kingston
#65. I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#66. I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
Jack Kingston
#67. For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
Maxine Hong Kingston
#68. Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#69. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Margo Kingston
#70. Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
Karen Kingston
#71. Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston
#72. If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
Alex Kingston
#73. In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
Alex Kingston
#74. What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
Jack Kingston
#75. As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.
Margo Kingston
#76. The weak can often become strong in the hands of the unscrupulous.
Charles Kingston
#77. The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
Alex Kingston
#78. Keeping things 'just in case' indicates a lack of trust in the future.
Karen Kingston
#80. Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#81. Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#82. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.
Margo Kingston
#83. It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.
Sean Kingston
#84. The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#85. I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston
#86. I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.
Sean Kingston
#88. I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
Sean Kingston
#89. Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#90. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)
Maxine Hong Kingston
#91. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#92. I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston
#93. Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
Alex Kingston
#95. Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.
Sean Kingston
#96. Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#97. When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#98. But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston
#99. I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
Sean Kingston
#100. Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
Jack Kingston
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