Damascus Quote by Mark Twain

“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed.…

— Mark Twain

I went with my love all over Damascus, he said. The memory is tied to the place.

— New York Times

“A new voice haild me of an old friend when, first returned from the Peninsula, I paced again in that long street of Damascus…

— Charles Montagu Doughty

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between…

— Jim Al-Khalili

There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“The home of the historic Semites was Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers.…

— Zaha Hadid

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary…

— Clive Barker

For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in…

— John Bagot Glubb

“The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!”

— Wilkie Collins

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within;…

— Washington Irving