Top 122 Mecca Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck
I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it's Seattle.
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
Mecca and Medinah is a very special place in the hearts of every Muslim but particularly for every Afghan.
California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.
I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.
In one notorious episode in 2002, in the holy city of Mecca, the religious police prevented girls from fleeing a school that was on fire because they were not properly dressed.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States.
There are over 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world, starting from Mecca in the desert from one person. What made them successful? It's because they had guidelines that they followed.
It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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 I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Madison Square Gardens is the Mecca of boxing.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].
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 purity.
We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.
I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.
After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.
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.
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 it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience.
My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf.
London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.
I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.
To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.
It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Atlanta was a welcoming presence for a lot of artists; they called it 'the Mecca of the South.' I got to see the Negro Ensemble Company, Cicely Tyson, Geraldine Page, Ruby Dee, all onstage.
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.
The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.
I am a shopaholic and Delhi is a Mecca for me.
America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.
If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.
Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.
Everyone wants to perform at Wembley Arena. It's a mecca.
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 work is.
No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
I felt that N.Y. is the mecca of basketball. The love that I have for basketball, I feel it here.
There are many roads to Mecca.
Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.
For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.
I want to fight in Madison Square Garden because it's the mecca of boxing. This is my dream.
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 influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .
