"The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca."

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Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

Raquel Cepeda

#Land Quotes #Republic Quotes #Mecca Quotes

“Oh, poverty parts good company.”
“You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.”
“Women speak in the superlative.”
“"I got ***** lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis'”
“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”
“Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.”
“His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”

Source : "Mohammad at Mecca". Book by William Montgomery Watt, p. 52, 1953.
“It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.”

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