Mother’s Day Sayings

Grateful words for the mothers who shaped us — 143 sayings

I'm a mom first, and then a tennis player.

— Serena Williams 2018
Wisdom

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was always convinced that I am the best.

— Diego Maradona 1990s
Wisdom

My mother is my role model. She's the one who taught me to work hard and to be humble.

— Michael Jordan 1998
Wisdom

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt 1958
Wisdom

I never thought I'd be a mother. I just wanted to be a good actress.

— Audrey Hepburn Unknown
Wisdom

I am a great admirer of my mother. She taught me everything.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov 1998
Wisdom

I have ordered the construction of a giant statue of my mother in Ashgabat.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov 2002
Wisdom

My mother always told me I was a beautiful girl. She was wrong.

— Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) 1980s
Wisdom

I'm not a good mother. I'm a mother who tries her best.

— Courtney Love 1995
Wisdom

I run for chicken nuggets. Seriously! My mom used to bribe me with them when I was little.

— Usain Bolt 2012
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I don't want to be like my mother, or like Mrs. van Daan—I want to be something entirely different.

— Anne Frank 1944
Wisdom

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2014
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The people are all naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them.

— Christopher Columbus 1492
Wisdom

I get my background from my mother, who is Puerto Rican, and my father, who is Haitian. So I have this kind of third world background.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat 1986
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My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and for her, that meant don't give way to emotions, don't be consumed by useless emotions like anger. The other was to be independent.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2015
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I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.

— Harriet Tubman 1849
Wisdom

I found the people of this island and all the other islands to be very naked, as I have said, men and women, just as their mothers bore them, but they know not what it is to be shameful, nor to cover their parts, though they wear a cotton thing on th…

— Christopher Columbus 1492
Wisdom

My mother was my first teacher. She was a very kind and compassionate person. She never went to school, but she had a lot of common sense.

— Dalai Lama (14th) 2013
Educational

I'm a mother. I'm a teacher. I'm a mentor.

— Madonna 2018
Educational

Facebook can know you better than your mother does.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2018
Educational
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