Mecca Quotes
47 quotes by 42 authors
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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
— Neil Simon
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the…
— Alex O'Loughlin
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
— Obie Trice
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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…
— Jeff Abbott
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Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.
— Gene Pitney
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Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where…
— Dree Hemingway
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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves…
— Vikram Seth
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that…
— Betty Shabazz
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The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of…
— Michael J. Fox
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Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
— Robert Duvall
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Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love…
— Marc Jacobs
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
— Malcolm X
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When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
— Joni Mitchell
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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,…
— Patti Smith
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Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of…
— Dan Brown
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions…
— Karen Armstrong
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In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is…
— Taylor Swift
Who Wrote These Mecca Quotes
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