Quotes of famous Ukrainians about Ukraine, the Motherland
Today, the issue of Ukrainian self-identity is more acute than ever. Ukrainians unite, demonstrating their patriotism and actively focusing on their culture, language, and history. Ukraine is a country with a glorious, majestic, and, at the same time, tragic past and a terrible present. However, we are the voice of our state and the creators of its future. Writers and other famous cultural figures have never stood aside and loudly declared their civic position and love for their country. Their words are forever engraved in the pages of history. Here are some quotes from Ukrainian artists, writers, and poets about our Motherland, nationality, traditions, the struggle for independence, and what it means to be Ukrainian.
Ukraine starts with you. Viacheslav Chornovil
To be a Ukrainian means to be constantly able to prove its right to exist. Volodymyr Vynnychenko
To you, my Ukraine, my first breath, and my last breath for you. Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny
We are fighting for what has no price in the whole world — for the Motherland. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
And you thought that Ukraine is so simple. Ukraine is great. Ukraine is exclusive. All the rinks of history have passed through it. It has worked out all kinds of tests. It is hardened by the highest hardening. In today’s world, it has no price. Lina Kostenko
We must learn to feel ourselves Ukrainians — not Galician or Bukovinian Ukrainians, but Ukrainians without official borders. Ivan Franko
No one will build a state for us if we don’t build it ourselves, and none of us will make a nation if we ourselves don’t want to be a nation. Vyacheslav Lypynsky
Love Ukraine in dreams and waking hours, your cherry Ukraine, its beauty forever living and new, and its language of a nightingale. Volodymyr Sosiura
Ukraine is an eternity, not only the present but above all the future and the past. Yaroslav Stetsko
The Motherland can do without any of us, but none of us can do without the Motherland. Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
No matter how great the Moscow violence, it does not give Moscovites any legal right in Ukraine. Pylyp Orlyk
Love your Ukraine. Love her … during the rage, at the last difficult moment, pray to the Lord for her. Taras Shevchenko
