Mothers Day countdown - day 5

In the UK and 45 in the US towards Mothers Day.

Continuing our Mothers Day countdown. Here are a few more inspirational quotes:

5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever - Uknown

6. As is the mother, so is her daughter - Ezekiel 16:4.

7. Men are what their mothers made them - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers -
Harriet Beecher Stowe.

9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher.

10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness - Honore de Balzac.

11. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom - Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman.

12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
- Nancy Thayer.

13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class - Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
- Lin Yutang, Chinese writer.

15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground - Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist.

Look out for more inspirational quotes for Mothers Day tomorrow.