Middle East/demographics

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or east:

“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)