Words matter. These are the best Mecca Quotes from famous people such as Hamza Yusuf, Gennady Golovkin, Valerie Simpson, Scott Caan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My great, great grandfather, Michael O’Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
I want to fight in Madison Square Garden because it’s the mecca of boxing. This is my dream.
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer’s dream to work there.
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’d love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God – much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.
Everyone wants to perform at Wembley Arena. It’s a mecca.
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.
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.
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
There’s one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It’s inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.
Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it’s where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home – I love the culture clash of the city.
I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester’s Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart’s Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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.
Madison Square Gardens is the Mecca of boxing.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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.
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those ‘old-timers’ ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of ‘Black Mecca’ are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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.
I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.
The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and ‘Arabic’ numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia.
Mecca and Medinah is a very special place in the hearts of every Muslim but particularly for every Afghan.
I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.
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.
I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it’s Seattle.
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.
