Marc Parent Quotes & Sayings

Mastering the art of good casework is a little like staring into the shuttering eyes of a rabid canine and saying "nice doggie" until you find a shotgun. — Marc Parent

If you stick with running, the day will come when you'll want to live forever. — Marc Parent

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place. — Marc Parent

Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity
something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying. — Marc Parent

I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it. — Marc Parent

Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life. — Marc Parent

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself. — Marc Parent

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing. — Marc Parent

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal. — Marc Parent

If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers ... February is for doers - — Marc Parent

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that. — Marc Parent

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half. — Marc Parent

Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold. — Marc Parent

Sean may have had his problems, but he was a smart kid - the day's lesson was not lost on him, I'm certain. It wasn't lost on me: It doesn't matter how good you are at flag signals if no one is watching - the distress call is only as good as the person looking out for it."

~"Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Risk — Marc Parent

You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people. — Marc Parent