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Patti Davis Quotes

American - Celebrity | October 21, 1952 -

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

Life Strength Grief Forward You Way

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.

Life Love Health Sickness Resilience

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

Legacy You Earth Leave Hearts Your

Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'

Dog Reflection Grow Long Look Fast

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.

Love Father Mother Eyes Moment Know

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

Enough Long You Circle Earth Know

I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?

Mother Time Responsibility Grief Try

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

Child Me Hair Swimming Summer Days

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Memories Walk Process You Run Point

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

Life Death Think You Nothing More

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.

Father Heart Eyes Past Words Me

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.

Father Water Bird Food Me Birds

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