I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death.… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, my father saw an ad somewhere for 'real simulated diamonds' and he was chuckling and… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
There is a version of Alzheimer's which is early onset Alzheimer's. And it's - it's horrible, because people do get it in their 50s… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
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. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
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