Mother’s Day: beautiful phrases to dedicate to your mum

Words are important, a written message lasts forever. Is it hard sometimes to express your true feelings? At some point in time, everyone’s been embarrassed, gotten choked up, become timid all of a sudden when we try to share our deepest feelings with someone we care about.

This Mother’s Day, find the right words to amaze and surprise her. There are many phrases dedicated to Mum from some of the most important historical figures: do you want to delight her with a sweet thought, or put a smile on her face with a jokey phrase? We’ve selected 10 of the most beautiful quotes to give to your mum on her special day.

Next to each phrase there’s a precious thought representing the lasting bond between a mother and her child. Discover all the ideas to amaze and delight the most important woman in your life and choose Mother’s Day gifts that are perfect for your mum!

#1 Composable Classic Pink Coral Cluster Link
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
Honoré de Balzac

#2 Composable Classic Mother and Daughter Link
"Mother always has a heart to give so that her son does not have to suffer. Mother is always the fragrant flower that everything around it fills itself with, even when you are far away.”
Edmondo De Amicis

#3 Composable Classic Link with Gemstone and Rose Gold
“If I thought I was weird even just for a moment, my mother's eyes would look out at me over her glasses, and like two thumbtacks would set me firmly in my place in the world.”
Banana Yoshimoto

#4 Composable Classic Rose Gold Mummy Link
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
Tenneva Jordan

#5 Composable Classic Daisy Link
“Eternal literature is the oldest medicine in the world. It is prior to writing. Before settling on clay tablets, it purified the voices, it appeased the souls. It continues to do so every time a mother bends over her child, numbed by fatigue, and tells a story, sings a song.”
Christian Bobin

#6 Composable Classic Light Blue Rocking Horse Link
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
Erich Fromm

#7 Composable Mum Double Link
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”
Sharon Doubiago

#8 Composable Classic Silver Ribbon Link
“I have met many successful men in my life; most of them were proud of their mothers and admitted they owed their personalities to a large extent to her.”
Robert Baden-Powell

#9 Composable Classic Children Link
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
Pearl S. Buck

#10 Composable Classic Mother’s Day Link
“The truths that matter - important principles - are, in the final analysis, still only two or three. They are those that your mother taught you as a child.”
Enzo Biagi

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