Apple Pie Quotes

• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• Oppression is as American as apple pie.

  Audre Lorde

  Apples, Pie, Oppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.114, Crossing Press

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• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.303, Oxford University Press

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• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  Lisa Loeb

  Birthday, Pie, Cake

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Weather, Apples, Pie

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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• The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Men, Yellow

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• I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dog, Apples, Pie

  "The Colbert Report (Walter Kirn)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 1, 2007.

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• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  Eugene Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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• Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

  Banksy

  Apples, Pie, Sick

  "Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

  Robert Greene

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Apples, Pie, Pudding

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• Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

  Harry Reasoner

  Mom, Baseball, Apples

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• The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

  Scott Foley

  Apples, Pie, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, Apples, Pie

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• Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

  Johnny Cash

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.

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• Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

  Apples, Pie, Cheesy

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• God bless my soul! No apple pie.

  Robert Oliver

  Food, Blessed, Apples

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

  Jay Inslee

  Apples, Pie, Tolerance

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

  Bill Paxton

  Men, Thinking, Apples

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Two, Apples, Pie

  "StarChefs" Interview, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Country, Ice Cream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

  Colonel Sanders

  Apples, Pie, Biscuits

  "KFC dishes up Colonel Sanders' autobiography for free" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn't like warm apple pie.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Sex, Apples, Pie

  "Wilmer Valderrama reunites with ex Mandy Moore", www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2015.

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