27 Mecca Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. Malcolm X

Blessed Visit City Been Holy Mecca

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. C. L. R. James

World Has-Been All The World Been Modem Converted Mecca Washington

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Education School Secondary Religious Forget Going English Mecca English School

America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States. Anthony Joshua

Good Great You People States Some About Had Know Boxing America Establish Skills Your Mecca Champions Here

Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind. Darryl Pinckney

Memory Black Every Preserved Virtually Those Musicals Kind Scenes Remembered Retrospect Ready Cousins Exists Texts Square Times Times Square Legends Elderly Grandparents Mecca Ever Harlem

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there. Geoff Dyer

Disappointment Secular Sense Muslim Would Religious Potential Feel Between Reaching Pilgrim Always Difference Mecca Inconceivable Profound

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then. Hamza Yusuf

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here. Jeff Abbott

Great Creative Live Think Writers Town Because Lot Austin Up Move Just Grew Them Mecca Lucky Here

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere. Joe Dempsie

You World Feeling Everywhere TV Bizarre TV Show Seeing Pretty Being Much Show Billboards Mecca Film Actor Film World

There was nobody in my family who knew anything about the film industry. I'm from the west of Scotland. It's not exactly a mecca for filmmaking. I think I saw Rab C. Nesbitt in Asda once, but that was about it. Kelly Macdonald

Family Think Once Saw Exactly About Knew Nobody Industry West Scotland Anything Who Mecca Film Film Industry Filmmaking

It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place. Mahershala Ali

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital. Manal al-Sharif

We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands. Mohammad bin Salman

Alone World Opportunities Mining More Square Than Uranium Lands Mecca Many Reserves Assets Million Four

Madison Square Gardens is the Mecca of boxing. Paulie Malignaggi

Madison Boxing Square Mecca Gardens

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. Robert Duvall

Good Beginning Bad Still End Hollywood Mecca Filmmaking

I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. Sarah Shahi

Good Me Sports Mother Pressure College Single Kind Nerdy Having Never Football Scholarship Attention Single Mother Coming Odd Go Texas Get Grades Which Really Paid Mecca Played Good Grades

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. Steven Van Zandt

Kid Vegas Like Got Gambler Mecca Las Vegas

London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747. Tom Parker Bowles

First Recipe Spice London Curry English Mecca Published Actually

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