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Quotes About Soup

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
~ Amy Tan
We went into the lunchroom and then the monk read something for twenty minutes while we ate our lunch - sour apple cider and lentil soup which tasted like canned to me but when I said so everyone just looked at me like I'm crazy, but - I think I know my soup.
~ Andy Warhol
Sorrel soup: "You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away. Of home? Certainly not, not even for Poles. Of what then? ...Of survival, perhaps.
~ John Berger
Yes," he said in return, and his voice cracked somewhat. "Yes, Comrade General Secretary." "And now," Stalin said, "let's have some soup, shall we?" Beria's heart sank. He still had too much work to do. "Oh, not you, Beria," the Vozhd said. "You are excused. Get the hell out of here and go do your job for a change. No soup for you.
~ John Birmingham
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
~ Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
For dinner she made a soup called "boy-catching soup" and a cake called "mother-in-law cake." These two dishes seemed to sum up a whole worldview of entrapment and placation.
~ Elif Batuman
Todo es mágico porque todo es maravilloso y único: cada respiración, cada paso, cada vuelta a la sopa. Cada acto es un acto de magia. La magia es la vida misma.
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock
My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.
~ Ina Garten
One of my favorite ways to use cilantro is in a beautiful clear soup with monkfish and lime. It's a great dish for cooler weather, especially because monkfish is very good in fall and winter. Also, I like the meatiness and rich texture of monkfish.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
~ Dylan Moran
When making any pureed soup, don't blend all the liquids and solids together at once. Hold back some liquid at first and use it to thin the soup as needed. You can always add more liquid, but there's not much you can do to fix a too-thin soup.
~ Claire Saffitz
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
Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert.
~ Austin O'Malley
I'm sorry. I was just running them. Running the dogs. I swallowed more soup and looked at the sky. The cold air was so clear the stars seemed to be falling to the ground. Like you could walk right. . . over . . . there and pick them up just lying on the snow. I couldn't come back.
~ Gary Paulsen
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
~ Deborah Harkness
Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for - soup?
~ Aristophanes
It's nothing to sneeze at—a soup made out of gizzards
~ Sholem Aleichem
During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
You are a virgin," Layla said, sighing. "Think of it as an unavoidable stage of life, like getting old and toothless and having to drink soup. Unfortunately, men seem to think that women are like new wine, good only before being uncorked.
~ Eloisa James
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
~ Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl)
need a drink of Ella's hot soup." Ella brought the warm broth
~ Barbara Smucker
Gertrude Chandler Warner
~ A Cow in My Soup G
It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.
~ James Wan
Waiter, waiter! This soup tastes funny. Then why aren't you laughing?
~ Scott McNeely