Famous quotes containing the words blessed, father and/or herman:
“No doubt it’s a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.”
—Judith Lewis Herman (b. 1942)