78 Chicken Soup Quotes

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Famous Chicken Soup Quotes

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. — Henny Youngman

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

Worries go down better with soup than without. — Jewish Proverbs

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. — Auguste Escoffier

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. - Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food. — Redd Foxx

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy. — Keith Floyd

I live on good soup, not on fine words. — Moliere

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. — Maya Angelou

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. — Jacques Pepin

When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick. — Yiddish Proverbs

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. — Hattie McDaniel

Short Chicken Soup Quotes

  • Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M. F. K. Fisher
  • Am I eating chicken or tuna? — Jessica Simpson
  • Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal. — Emeril Lagasse
  • ...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul. — Louisa May Alcott
  • Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate. — Plautus
  • Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea. — Jessica Simpson
  • Beef is the soul of cooking. — Marie-Antoine Careme
  • One worm may damage the whole cooking soup. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. — Frank Perdue
  • A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller

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Chicken Soup For The Soul Quotes

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. — Jack Canfield

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book. — Jack Canfield

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered. — Shane Claiborne

I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?' — Jimmy Fallon

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. — Jack Canfield

Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him. — Doug Wead

Chicken Quotes

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards. — Lewis Grizzard

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. — Dick Gregory

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor. — Julius Nyerere

Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free? — Gary Yourofsky

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles. — Kevin Gates

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken - Colonel Sanders

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken — Colonel Sanders

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. — Bertrand Russell

From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud. — Augusta Savage

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. — Larry Elder

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More Chicken Soup Quotes

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. — Carlos Santana

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. — Freeman Patterson

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner. — Curtis Stone

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. — Bob Hope

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. — Maurice Sendak

Love is dope, not chicken soup. — Tom Robbins

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick. — Robert D. Putnam

I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day. — Charles Oakley

Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice — Maurice Sendak

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start. — L. J. Smith

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere — Sara Bareilles

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup. — Kurt Vonnegut

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. — Louis Simpson

Carry your most important goal in your wallet". — Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction. — Jack Canfield

My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips. — Sanya Richards-Ross

He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell. — Carlos Santana

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either. — John Steinbeck

I think you can have a science of the taste of chicken soup, or the taste of Chateau Latour. My point is only that knowing this science alone will not tell you what chicken soup or Chateau Latour tastes like. — Tim Crane

He fell like a chicken into the soup. — Dmitri Shostakovich

My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a big fan of meat alternatives, so I can still have my chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans, but I just have the chicken from a plant-based thing. — Kathy Freston

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup. — Diane Duane

Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945. — Herbie Mann

I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!" — Mike Birbiglia

I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup. — Mason Cooley

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world. — Erma Bombeck

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me. — Kate Voegele

As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week. — Jack Canfield

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat. — Lisa Loeb

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence. — Ilona Andrews

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