Patti Davis Quotes

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 aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
Patti Davis

Father, Person, Him

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

Hope, Else, Far

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
Patti Davis

America, Odd, Rivalry

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
Patti Davis

Long, Enough, Around

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.
Patti Davis

Love, Deep, Country

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.
Patti Davis

Father, Feeling, Country

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 over his broken body.
Patti Davis

Hope, Everything, Broken

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.
Patti Davis

Today, Point, Research

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 except write about it.
Patti Davis

Moving, Else, Write

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
Patti Davis

Family, Best, Experience

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.
Patti Davis

Father, Against, Research

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

Life, Die, Leave

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 hear it forever.
Patti Davis

Long, Him, Before

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Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: October 21, 1952

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