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 father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.
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…
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'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.
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.
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. - Patti Davis
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
[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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