Boxing Quote by Lennox Lewis

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

— Steven Van Zandt

A donkey that goes to Mecca will not come back as a pilgrim.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Robert Duvall

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become…

— Geert Wilders

“This is Zemzem near Mecca. According to this, however, Hagar headed into the Arabian Peninsula rather than toward Egypt.”

— Abraham Ibn Ezra

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

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for…

— Ambrose Bierce

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

— Valerie Simpson

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about…

— Eboo Patel

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

— Rahman Baba

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he…

— Pierre Bayle

Mecca and Medinah is a very special place in the hearts of every Muslim but particularly for every Afghan.

— Ashraf Ghani

Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah…

— Muhammad Ali

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral,…

— Miguel Syjuco

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

— Stephan Pastis