Top 287 Caribbean Quotes & Sayings

I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Climate change is not a theoretical question for the people of the Caribbean.

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

When you're given the chance, you can't really not go to the Caribbean, can you?

I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.

There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.” Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.” “Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head. “Merengue? Hold on, I’ll get it.” He snapped his fingers. “Calypso!

Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad state. You've left them with terrible developmental challenges, and we believe you have a responsibility to return to the Caribbean and participate in the rebuilding of the Caribbean.'

My dad hates reggae. He's from St. Kitts, which is a really British island, with Victorian values. He doesn't have a strong Caribbean accent. He didn't play Caribbean music in the house. He was really into soul music, collecting soul 45s.

Food is an integral part of Caribbean life - it's diverse just like Caribbean culture, with flavour influences from India, Europe, China, South America and Africa.

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

We should have been born in the Caribbean. We like the heat.

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I kind of want to go play in the Caribbean Series to be honest. I'm not even kidding about that.

I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

I always take a trip someplace warm, and the Caribbean is my favorite place to travel for some sun.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

Miscegenation is not an idea that we would have in the Caribbean. It wouldn't come up because anybody could marry anybody, you know. I'm not saying that there aren't prejudices in the Caribbean, but the idea of the word 'miscegenation' is not something that we think of.

In the Caribbean the temperature never changes, the sun just goes down.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

Constructive criticism is not much accepted in the Caribbean.

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that's what India brought to the Caribbean.

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

I don't force reinvention. I play with silhouette and color, since Indian as well as Caribbean women have a penchant for these.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.