Patti Davis Quotes

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• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
• Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a…
• Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places…
• And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.
• I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it…
• The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could…
• 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.
• 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…
• Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.
• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
• 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…
• You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
• 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…
• I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were…
• My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my…
• My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is…
• Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered…
• I was such a punk.
• I needed to run away in order to come home.
• When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

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