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.
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 teacher. - Patti Davis
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 teacher.
- Patti Davis
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… - Patti Davis
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…
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. - Patti Davis
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.
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. - Patti Davis
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. - Patti Davis
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it. - Patti Davis
Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.
[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'ar… - Patti Davis
[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'ar…
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. - Patti Davis
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.
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… - Patti Davis
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…
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