You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky. I never really felt like LA was the Mecca, that you "made it" if you made it somewhere else.… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living… — Parvesh Cheena Copy Share Image
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image