122 Soup Quotes

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Famous Soup Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Either eat this soup or jump out of the window! — Italian Proverbs

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

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise. — A. A. Gill

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more. — Eddie Huang

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it. — Joe Rogan

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. — Ellen DeGeneres

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. — Gustave Flaubert

Short Soup Quotes

  • It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup. — Tennessee Williams
  • A grilled locust is better than no soup. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
  • One worm may damage the whole cooking soup. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. — Freeman Patterson
  • Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop. — Sam Cooke
  • Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. — Harville Hendrix
  • From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — Matsuo Basho
  • Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. — Anne Sexton
  • Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. — Jay Leno
  • Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? — Elayne Boosler

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Tomato Soup Quotes

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. — Katharine Hepburn

I make this really good tomato soup from scratch and I do it with grilled cheese sandwich dippers on the side. That's really, really, really good. And my grandma loves that. My grandma is the best cook ever so for her to love that makes me think it's probably the best thing I make. — Gigi Hadid

Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with some oysterettes. It was comfort food; that is what food should be. — Anthony Bourdain

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. — Katharine Hepburn

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup. — Kathleen Parker

But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. — Sarah Addison Allen

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like. — Cassandra Clare

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

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

Hot Soup Quotes

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. — Morgan Freeman

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. — Hubert Selby, Jr.

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup. — Shilpa Shetty

No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread. — Florence Fabricant

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind? — Gertrude Berg

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens. — Kyle Kinane

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot. — Fran Lebowitz

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out. And you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. — George Burns

Soup Kitchens Quotes

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. — Nicos Anastasiades

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half. — Uri Geller

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs. — Walter F. Mondale

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies. — Jeffrey Wright

Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen. — Ian MacKaye

What is the soup kitchen? — Paris Hilton

From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn their lives around - those are all Christian charities. This is just another charity the way I look at it. I don't look at it as being special or different. — Ralph Sarchie

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen. — Dan Harmon

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying. — Rebecca Goldstein

Alphabet Soup Quotes

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. — Deion Sanders

all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. — Sue Monk Kidd

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup? — Woody Allen

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. — Vanna White

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal? — Mary Norris

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it. — Ronald Reagan

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld

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

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More Soup Quotes

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles. — Masaharu Morimoto

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. — Groucho Marx

Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon. — Liam Payne

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken

Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. — Fred Hoyle

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. — James Joyce

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup. — Katharine Weymouth

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it! — Rachel Caine

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king. — Louis Bromfield

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. — Leslie Newman

It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup. — Richard Gehman

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us. — Ruby Dee

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth. — Fred Hoyle

You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it. — Joe Rogan

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love. — Laura Esquivel

If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate. — Ajahn Chah

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