Century Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of…

— T. E. Lawrence

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest…

— John William Draper

“the man who knew that his people were in the "fire of Egypt," which would some day be paralleled by the crematoria of contemporary…

— Benjamin Blech

“A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,” my father would say. And he’d prove it, cupping the buzzer instantly…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of…

— Saad Hariri

“If anyone had said, when this young Hebrew was carried away into captivity, that he would outrank all the mighty men of that day—that…

— D.L. Moody

“But at the end of the XIIIth Dynasty the great invasion of the Hyksos probably occurred, and all Northern Egypt fell under the Arab…

— Leonard William King

“There is no greater mistake than to imagine that the Arabs, who spread with such astonishing rapidity over half the civilized world, were in…

— Stanley Lane-Poole

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor…

— Gertrude Bell

Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the…

— John William Draper

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been…

— George William Russell