Top 17 Barbados Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Barbados Quotes from famous people such as Rihanna, Jofra Archer, Danai Gurira, Fidel Edwards, Alistair Horne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.
Rihanna
It’s really hard to get a chance in Barbados.
Jofra Archer
I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don’t know what the heck anyone means when they call me a ‘minority.’ There’s something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.
Danai Gurira
I did a lot of good work with my trainer and the physio in Barbados, and they were tremendous help to me during my comeback period.
Fidel Edwards
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as ‘the brightest jewel in the English crown’.
Alistair Horne
I’ve got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
Eric Bristow
By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads in the Barbados Labour Office and the NHS appealed to West Indian women to come to Britain and train to become nurses.
David Olusoga
My mother’s sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
Matisyahu
My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.
Rihanna
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
Derek Walcott
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
David Harewood
My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early ’60s.
David Harewood
My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I’ve been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What’s beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.
Hill Harper
Banks’ beer. There’s nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.
Ronald Biggs
My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.
Chris Hadfield
It’s hard not to enjoy yourself in Barbados and I was grateful for some time off and to chill with family and friends after such a busy period of cricket in 2020. There were some Covid restrictions, but there was a lot more freedom than we’ve had in the U.K.
Jofra Archer
Barbados has some of the toughest par threes in the world. Some golfers are intimidated by having to drive over ravines and water hazards.
Garfield Sobers