“And chicken soup is widely known to be good for life.”

— Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: The amount of organic matter that could have been produced in the first few hundred million years of Earth history was sufficient to have produced in the present ocean a several-percent solution of organic matter. This is just about the dilution of Knorr's chicken soup, and not that different from the composition either. And chicken soup is widely known to be good for life.

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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996

Donald Miller (1971) American writer

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

“Love is dope, not chicken soup.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Source: Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

“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 (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“Feeling better?” he asked.
“As warm as chicken-apple soup.”
“I’m never going to hear the end of that, am I?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.”

Kristen Britain book Blackveil

Source: Blackveil

“Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Original: (de) Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen.

“How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of consecrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose?”

Jerome David Salinger book Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
Context: Even if you went out and searched the whole world for a master — some guru, some holy man — to tell you how to say your Jesus Prayer properly, what good would it do you? How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of consecrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose? Can you tell me that?

“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 American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

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