Patti Davis Citas

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

  Patti Davis

  Circles, Long, Full Circle

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• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

  Patti Davis

  Grief, Way

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• 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 around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

  Patti Davis

  Life Lesson, Grief, Bereavement

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• La enfermedad de Alzheimer cierra todas las puertas y salidas. No hay tregua, no hay escapatoria.

  Patti Davis

  Alzheimer's, Doors, Locks

  Patti Davis (2004). “The Long Goodbye”, Knopf

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• [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

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• That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

  Patti Davis

  Heart, Legacy, Earth

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. December 3, 2004.

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• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

  Patti Davis

  Brother, Sibling, America

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• The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

  Patti Davis

  Thinking, Unique, Long

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• I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

  Patti Davis

  Thinking, Dying, Death And Dying

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• Mi padre empezó a volverse muy callado a medida que el Alzheimer empezó a reclamar más de él. Las primeras fases del Alzheimer son las más duras porque la persona es consciente de que está perdiendo la conciencia. Y creo que por eso mi padre empezó a quedarse cada vez más callado.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• 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

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• Las historias viven en la sangre y en los huesos, siguen las estaciones y encienden velas en la noche más oscura: todo narrador sabe que también es un maestro.

  Patti Davis

  Teacher, Night, Light

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• 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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• It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

  Patti Davis

  Resilience, Doe, Sickness

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• Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

  Patti Davis

  Maternidad, Pensamiento, Personas

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• 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

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Vision

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• Ya no soy el niño enfadado y rebelde que era. Puedes seguir siendo un niño durante mucho tiempo. Yo ciertamente lo fui. Aprendía despacio.

  Patti Davis

  Children, Long, Rebellious

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• Los recuerdos le acompañaron durante mucho tiempo, y permanecieron vívidos. Y no me importaba que ya lo hubiera repetido antes. Podía oírlo para siempre.

  Patti Davis

  Memories, Long, Forever

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• I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.

  Patti Davis

  Struggle, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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

  Patti Davis

  People, Wonder, Behinds

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• it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

  Patti Davis

  Eye, Dying, Age

  Patti Davis (2011). “The Long Goodbye”, p.30, Knopf

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• 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

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• Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

  Patti Davis

  Mistake, Made, Persons

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• I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

  Patti Davis

  Book, Self, People

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• I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

  Patti Davis

  Should Have, Careers, People

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