Dear readers,
Mother’s Day is coming soon. This is a Chinese song for mothers. Almost all students sang this song when they were in elementary schools, especially around Mother’s Day.
Want to surprise your mom with a perfect Mother’s Day present which is priceless and super unique? Sing this song to her 🙂
母親您真偉大
Mǔ qīn nín zhēn wěi dà
Mother you are really great.
母親像月亮一樣， 照耀我家門窗；
Mǔ qīn xiàng yuè liàng yí yàng, zhào yào wǒ jiā mén chuāng
Mother, you are like the moon shining on doors and windows of our house.
聖潔多慈祥, 發出愛的光芒。
shèng jié duō cí xiáng, fā chū ài de guāng máng.
Holy, pure and such kindness, you radiate brilliant rays of love.
為了兒女著想，不怕烏雲阻擋；
Wèi le ér nǚ zháo xiǎng, bú pà wū yún zǔ dǎng
You consider the need of your children, and you are not afraid of dark clouds’ blocking the way.
賜給我溫情，鼓勵我向上。
cì gěi wǒ wēn qíng, gǔ lì wǒ xiàng shàng.
You bestow warm love to me, and encourage me to aim higher and higher.
母親啊！ 我愛您！
Mǔ qīn a! Wǒ ài nín!
Ah, mom! I love you.
我愛您， 您真偉大！
Wǒ ài nín, nín zhēn wěi dà!
I love you; you are really great!
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母親像月亮一樣， 照耀我家門窗；
Mǔ qīn xiàng yuè liàng yí yàng, zhào yào wǒ jiā mén chuāng
Mother, you are like the moon shining on doors and windows of our house.
聖潔多慈祥, 發出愛的光芒。
shèng jié duō cí xiáng, fā chū ài de guāng máng.
Holy, pure and such kindness, you radiate brilliant rays of love.
不辭艱難困苦，給我指引迷惘；
Bù cí jiān nán qùn kǔ, gěi wǒ zhǐ yǐn mí wǎng
You don’t quit because of difficulty and hardship. You guide me the way when I am perplexed.
親情深如海，此恩何能忘？
qīn qíng shēn rú hǎi, cǐ ēn hé néng wàng?
Your love is as deep as oceans. How can I forget this grace.
母親啊！ 我愛您！
Mǔ qīn a! Wǒ ài nín!
Ah mother! I love you!
我愛您， 您真偉大！
Wǒ ài nín, nín zhēn wěi dà!
I love you. You are truly great.
Translated by Shu
Quotes of mom and mother:
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
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
The phrase “working mother” is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
Some mothers 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
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Read more quotes about mom, see
http://www.quotegarden.com/mothers.html
Pink Floyd Mother With Lyrics
天下的媽媽都是一樣的
tiānxià de māma dōu shì yīyàng de
Moms in the world are all the same — This is a fun song, and very sweet too.
For the lyrics, pinyin and translation, see http://www.chinesetolearn.com/?p=6418