Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 142
“There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.”
Source: Oh My Goth
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the …" by Gena Showalter?
Gena Showalter 144
American writer 1975Related quotes
“… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.”
Henry S. Haskins
(1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 46
Robert Benchley
(1889–1945) American comedian
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Variant: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Context: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.
William Lane Craig
(1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist
to an empty chair representing Richard Dawkins, Contending with Christianity's Critics Conference, Watermark Community Church, Dallas,
viewable at [2012-10-09, Eastwooding Richard Dawkins, ReasonableFaithOrg, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZb8m7p8ng, 2012-10-10] Also quoted in [2012-10-09, Christian Apologist ‘Eastwooding’ After Richard Dawkins Refuses Debate, Michael, Gryboski, The Christian Post, http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-apologist-eastwooding-after-richard-dawkins-refuses-debate-82963/, 2012-10-10]