Cabbage Soup Quotes

#1. I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.

Nancy Farmer

#2. The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

Jonathan Dunne

#3. The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

Anthony Burgess

#4. A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.

Geraldine Brooks

#5. You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.'

Trevor Phillips

#6. I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Mike Huckabee

#7. I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Ellen Burstyn

#8. Suddenly I can't breath, can't figure out what the hell he sees in me, but I can't look away, either. And that's when I realize, his eyes are locked on mine. Until this moment, I didn't notice; I thought he was off in music land, but he's lost in me instead.

Ann Aguirre

#9. Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?

Suzanne Somers

#10. At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Jilly Cooper

#11. This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

Peter F. Drucker

#12. But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

Richard Simmons

#13. The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Dee Hock

#14. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

H.L. Mencken

#15. The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.

Roald Dahl