#mecca

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. ↗

— Neil Simon

#like #mecca #new #new york #smells

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

— Valerie Simpson

#every #mecca #motown #work #writer

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. ↗

— Scott Caan

#fun #long #long shot #love #me

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. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#church #face #feeling #go #mecca

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#came #every #here #i #i came

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track. ↗

— Betty Shabazz

#doctors #go #harvard #helped #husband

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

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. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#central #essential #faith #five #islam

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

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#english #english school #forget #going #i

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. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#america #cult #extreme #going #hilt