Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer
David James "Dave" Pelzer is an American author, of several autobiographical and self-help books. He is best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth29 December 1960
CityDaly City, CA
CountryUnited States of America
mother flames orange
Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.
mother abuse want
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
mother children sick
David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
my-family brady-bunch bunch
I was abused my family was the "brady bunch
schwarzenegger
I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.
cancer hate cells
Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.
school care foster-care
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
years hours
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,
book years
I buy thousands of books a year.
knows i-can
I know I can be very standoffish . . .
beautiful ocean blow
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.
humble winner humble-beginnings
One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.
speak dave mania
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.