Dave Pelzer Quotes

Well, young man, the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable ... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents ~ Dave Pelzer

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives. ~ Dave Pelzer

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care. ~ Dave Pelzer

There are no guarantees in life, so learn from others' mistakes. Enjoy what you can, while you can. Don't let it consume you like . . . well, just let go and let life happen. ~ Dave Pelzer

Lived through an extraordinary experience, yet I was fortunate enough to learn from it and walk away a better person. I can't change my past, and it does not grant me the right to use it as a crutch, nor am I destined to become a prisoner because of it. For years I have lived by the philosophy: that which does not kill you can only make you stronger. I simply had to learn to pick myself up at an earlier age. ~ Dave Pelzer

Its all a matter of weeding out the bad and cultivating more productive thoughts. And just like pulling weeds, you have to get to the root otherwise that weed, the self-doubt, that negative programming, will spring back up and shoke off the flower that can blossom for you in the future.Be consistent. Apply that "weed off" whenever you feel the need. Every day see the brighter side of things. Continually tell yourself how lucky you are, how good your life is right now, and how things can only get better ~ Dave Pelzer

The most beautiful highway in the world ~ Dave Pelzer

When my time comes, I would like to know that I have repaid my debt to those who have made a difference in my life. And to be at peace knowing that I stopped the cancer from spreading to those I love. ~ Dave Pelzer

I was on my own, and every night I prayed to God that I could be strong both in body and soul. ~ Dave Pelzer

My message has always been about resilience. ~ Dave Pelzer

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing ~ Dave Pelzer

That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me. ~ Dave Pelzer

I longed for the day when her soul would be taken into the depths of hell ~ Dave Pelzer

If it all ends now, I have lived, I have learned, and I have been loved. The greatest lesson is the gift of life, and no matter what, tomorrow is always another day. ~ Dave Pelzer

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust.
Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate. ~ Dave Pelzer

Something good comes out of every crisis. ~ Dave Pelzer

I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you. ~ Dave Pelzer

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me. ~ Dave Pelzer

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit. ~ Dave Pelzer

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time. ~ Dave Pelzer

One Child's courage to survive ~ Dave Pelzer

That day at school I prayed for the world to end. ~ Dave Pelzer

Lets go of my ear and opens the front door. "Get out!" she screeches. "Get out of my house! I don't like you! I don't want you! I never loved you! Get the hell out of my house!" I freeze. I'm not sure of this game. My brain begins to spin with all the options of what Mother's real intentions may be. To survive, I have to think ahead. Father steps in front of me. "No!" he cries out. "That's ~ Dave Pelzer

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. ~ Dave Pelzer

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. ~ Dave Pelzer

Of all Mother's punishments, I hated the gas chamber game the most. Towards ~ Dave Pelzer

I plan my life in 15-minute sections. ~ Dave Pelzer

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. ~ Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife. ~ Dave Pelzer

Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever. ~ Dave Pelzer

I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down ~ Dave Pelzer

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age. ~ Dave Pelzer

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. ~ Dave Pelzer

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day. ~ Dave Pelzer

Love and honor thy Mother, for she is the fruit that gives thou life. ~ Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak. ~ Dave Pelzer

Be good, be honest and fair, find something I believe in, work hard and keep the faith no matter how long it takes? ~ Dave Pelzer

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. ~ Dave Pelzer

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim. ~ Dave Pelzer

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it. ~ Dave Pelzer

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it. ~ Dave Pelzer

no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world. ~ Dave Pelzer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. ~ Dave Pelzer

I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. ~ Dave Pelzer

Everybody makes mistakes. ~ Dave Pelzer

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset. ~ Dave Pelzer

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. ~ Dave Pelzer

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish. ~ Dave Pelzer

your a nobody, an it ~ Dave Pelzer

The body can endure practically anything--pain, fatigue, you name it-- but its the mind that matters. ~ Dave Pelzer

The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive. ~ Dave Pelzer

My mom obviously had a problem. ~ Dave Pelzer

Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films. ~ Dave McKean

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump - an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat. ~ Dave Barry

This is why Max loved Mr. Beckmann: he was an equal. He seemed to have navigated his way through seven or so decades of adulthood without forgetting one moment of his childhood- what he loved and hated, feared and coveted. ~ Dave Eggers

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink. ~ Dave Barry

Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before. ~ Dave Attell

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way. ~ Dave Eggers

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do. ~ Dave Brat

You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid.
-responding to an idiot in the audience during a stand-up performance who would not stop yelling "I'm Rick James B***h". ~ Dave Chapelle

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. ~ Dave Matthews

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic. ~ Dave Gahan

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse. ~ Dave Gorman

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes. ~ Dave Brat

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that. ~ Dave Morris

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band. ~ Dave Grohl

Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT! ~ Dave Zebian

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends. ~ Dave Morin

We give you a list of suggested friends to connect with who are already on Path. We notify you when other friends of yours join Path. ~ Dave Morin

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery. ~ Dave Eggers

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change. ~ Dave Ramsey

Did you know that when Dave Navarro first met Carmen Electra, rumor has it that he was so taken with her beautiful eyes that he went out and bought over a hundred pairs of sunglasses for her to wear to cover her eyes whenever she left her house so no one would fall in love the way he did? ~ Samantha Daniels

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me. ~ Dave Lombardo

Or the woman in front of me in the security line who asked if they would put her cat, Dave, through the luggage X-ray machine because she wanted to see if he'd eaten a necklace. ~ Jenny Lawson

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits. ~ Dave Mustaine

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. ~ Dave Thomas

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian. ~ Dave Foley

There's folly in her stride
that's the rumor
justified by lies
I've seen her up close
beneath the sheets
and sometime during the summer
she was mine for a few sweet months in the fall
and parts of December

((( To get to the heart of this unsolvable equation, one must first become familiar with the physical, emotional, and immaterial makeup as to what constitutes both war and peace. )))

I found her looking through a window
the same window I'd been looking through
She smiled and her eyes never faltered
this folly was a crime

((( The very essence of war is destructive, though throughout the years utilized as a means of creating peace, such an equation might seem paradoxical to the untrained eye. Some might say using evil to defeat evil is counterproductive, and gives more meaning to the word "futile". Others, like Edmund Burke, would argue that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing." )))

She had an identity I could identify with
something my fingertips could caress in the night

((( There is such a limitless landscape within the mind, no two minds are alike. And this is why as a race we will forever be at war with each other.
What constitutes peace is in the mind of the beholder. )))

Have you heard the argument?
This displacement of men and women
and women and men
the minds we all have
Dave Matthes

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. ~ Dave Barry

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles. ~ Dave Barry

I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house. ~ Dave Sitek

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in. ~ Dave Matthews

This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to - how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly. ~ Laura Dave

Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes. ~ Dave Anderson

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. - DAVE BARRY ~ Timothy Ferriss

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold. ~ Dave Grohl

When desperate people seek easy solutions without doing the hard work of fundamental learning and change, resilience is undermined and real growth and learning fade. ~ Dave Ulrich

Dave Grohl have said a lot of really nice things about me that I don't know I deserve but it's nice of him regardless. ~ Reed Mullin

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there. ~ Dave Gahan

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds. ~ Dave Chappelle

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him. ~ Andrew Clements