Mother’s Day Sayings

Grateful words for the mothers who shaped us — 143 sayings

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

— Edvard Munch Late 19th Century
Justice & Rights

I am a son of the Chinese people. I profoundly love my motherland and my people.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
Love & Relationships

She was not born to be a wife, nor a mother, nor anything but herself.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
Love & Relationships

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away.

— Sitting Bull 1880s
Nature & World

When a child, my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms.

— Geronimo 1906
Nature & World

The sea is my mother, my lover, my friend.

— Pablo Neruda Unknown
Love & Relationships

The dust of the earth is my mother, and the sky is my father.

— Rabindranath Tagore early 20th century
Nature & World

I am not a mother, and I am not a wife. I am a painter.

— Frida Kahlo Undated
Love & Relationships

I love my country. I love my God. I love my mama.

— Elvis Presley 1970s
Love & Relationships

I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm a daughter. I'm a sister. I'm a friend.

— Madonna 2003
Love & Relationships

I'm a human being, and I'm a woman, and I'm a mother, and I'm a wife, and I'm a daughter, and I'm a sister, and I'm a friend. And I'm also a boss.

— Beyonce 2018
Love & Relationships

Cabbage and turnips have driven me away, had my mother cooked meat, I'd have opted to stay.

— Johann Sebastian Bach Undated (18th century)
General

It is not enough to be a queen; one must be a mother.

— Marie Antoinette 1778
Power & Leadership

A man's best friend is his mother. His second best friend is his wife. And his third best friend is a dog. After that, forget it.

— Alfred Hitchcock 1960s
Love & Relationships

My mother always told me, 'hide your face people are looking at you.' I would reply, 'it does not matter; I am also looking at them.'

— Malala Yousafzai 2013
General

As my mother used to say, guests are like cakes: if you keep them too long, they turn rancid and become inedible.

— Charlie Chaplin Unknown
General

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley 1929
General

It is clear to everyone that a mother cannot devote herself to a job and this would be a terrible job, because Rome is in such a terrible state.

— Silvio Berlusconi 2016
General

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a recent survey, they don't want them to become a Congressman.

— John F. Kennedy 1963
Political

One cannot be a leader unless one is a mother.

— Golda Meir 1970s
General
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