Patti Davis Quotes - Page 2

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• I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

  Patti Davis

  Thinking, Political, Problem

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• I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

  Patti Davis

  Uncles, Couple, Holiday

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• My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

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  Lying, Father, Moving

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• I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

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  Father, Feelings, Want

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• You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

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  Order, Parent, Finding Yourself

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• I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

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  Children, Long, Rebellious

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• I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

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  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

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  Father, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

  Patti Davis

  People, Wonder, Behinds

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• America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

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  Country, Father, Taken

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• Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

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  Taken, Offering, Cells

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• I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

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  Childhood, Would Be, Clean

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• Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Heart, Eye

  "Ronald Reagan’s Daughter, Patti Davis, Releases Lesbian Novel", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

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  Loss, Figures, Teach

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• And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

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  Absence, False Hope

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• The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

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  Would Be, Way, Ethical

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• The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

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  Father, Shoes, Glasses

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• There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

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  Running, Memories, Grieving

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• People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

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  Love, Thinking, People

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• I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

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  Writing, Character, Firsts

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• When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

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  Summer, Children, Swimming

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