Patti Davis Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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, Thinking, Alzheimer's

• 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

  Country, Father, Taken

• 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, Alzheimer's, Cells

• 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.

  Patti Davis

  Mother, Father, Eye

• 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.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Heart, Eye

  "Ronald Reagan’s Daughter, Patti Davis, Releases Lesbian Novel", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

• [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 'are homeless by choice'?

  Patti Davis

  Father, Sleep, America

• I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

  Patti Davis

  Father, Thinking, Alzheimer's

• The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Shoes, Glasses

• 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 stately old cathedral to me now.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Feelings, Want

• My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

  Patti Davis

  Lying, Father, Moving

• My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Men, Long

  "Patti Davis on rebelling against Reagan" by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.

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