Source: A Child Called "It"
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Famous Dave Pelzer Quotes
Source: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
“The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.”
Source: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
Source: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
Source: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
“In the years before I was abused, my family was the “Brady Bunch”.”
Source: A Child Called "It"
Source: A Child Called "It"
“Whatever you do, do something positive.”
Source: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
Source: A Child Called "It"
Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life
“You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.”
“When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.”
“Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.”
“Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.”
“I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.”
“The most beautiful highway in the world”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
“I was abused my family was the "brady bunch”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
“I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!”
Source: The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
“I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down”
“...and deliver me from evil." "Amen.”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Source: A Man Named Dave
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Source: A Child Called It
“One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Source: The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
“Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
“Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.”
“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive