"Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care."

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Source : "The Privilege of Youth". Book by Dave Pelzer, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2004.

Dave Pelzer

#School Quotes #Care Quotes #Foster Care Quotes

“If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.”
“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

Source : Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.43, Penguin
“It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.”
“Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.”
“I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.”
“Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.”
“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
“There's a king in every crowd.”

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