149 Apple Pie Quotes

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Famous Apple Pie Quotes

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. — Jane Austen

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

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

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. — George du Maurier

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. — Henry David Thoreau

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. — Gaylord Perry

The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider. — Beverly Lewis

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

An apple is sweeter than grapes, but grape is called an apple. — Turkish Proverbs

An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough. — Stephen Colbert

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. - Walt Whitman

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. — Walt Whitman

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. — David Mamet

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. - P. G. Wodehouse

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. — P. G. Wodehouse

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me! — Gena Showalter

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

Short Apple Pie Quotes

  • In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham
  • Woman is at once apple and serpent. — Heinrich Heine
  • I produce music as an apple tree produces apples. — Camille Saint-Saens
  • It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. — Sarah Addison Allen
  • desserts are the most crucial part of any meal. — Linda Sunshine
  • I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine. — Amy Smart
  • Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
  • The apple does not fall far from the tree. — German proverbs
  • The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. — English Proverbs
  • Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere. — Ina Garten

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American Pie Quotes

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. — Hal Moore

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary. — H. Rap Brown

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. - H. Rap Brown

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. — H. Rap Brown

Oppression is as American as apple pie. — Audre Lorde

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to. — Don McLean

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. — Don McLean

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. — Rick Danko

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. — Don McLean

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

Apple Quotes

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. — Alexander Fleming

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. — Martin Luther

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness. — Fulton J. Sheen

If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it. — Gurbaksh Chahal

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

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple. - Moe Howard

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple. — Moe Howard

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? — Chuck Palahniuk

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. — Cyrano de Bergerac

Apple Fruit Quotes

Whole-fruit consumption is also self-limiting, because the fiber makes it more filling. For example, it would be quite difficult to eat five apples, but it’s a breeze to drink the sugar contained in five apples when juiced. — Max Lugavere

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. — Jeanette Winterson

I also eat fruit instead of drinking juices. That's something I've read up on. I think that if you drink a lot of fruit juice you take in way too much sugar. You'd be better off eating a bunch of strawberries or apples. — Kris Humphries

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls. — Kabir

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King

Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy — Maggie Stiefvater

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.' — Demetri Martin

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. — Helen Hunt Jackson

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike

Apple Cider Quotes

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. — Rachael Ray

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech. — Lea Michele

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. — Jane Hirshfield

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.) — Michael Pollan

For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing. — Clinton Kelly

The older I get, the more I feel. — Sharon Olds

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer. — Erin Morgenstern

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar. — Kate DiCamillo

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. — Melissa Etheridge

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body. — Shailene Woodley

Applesauce Quotes

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. — Rudyard Kipling

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. — Groucho Marx

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. — Groucho Marx

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. — Rachel Corrie

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce. — Will Rogers

I always have applesauce in my fridge, and when traveling I take protein bars just in case I get hungry. They're my go-to snack. — Sloane Stephens

Politics is applesauce. — Will Rogers

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. — Groucho Marx

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. — Natalie Goldberg

I rushed us out of your parents' house because I didn't think I could manage two hours at the dinner table with everyone focused on Joe Loosey's joystick sitting in the refrigerator next to the applesauce. — Janet Evanovich

Apple Trees Quotes

If you want apples, you have to shake the trees. — Bulgarian Proverbs

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. — Tom Shadyac

The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that. — Frank Zappa

The apple falls not far from the tree. — Polish Proverbs

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. — Sergei Yesenin

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better. — J. B. Priestley

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. — Arthur Miller

The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. — William Allingham

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie. — Werner Herzog

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. — Henry David Thoreau

Pumpkin Pie Quotes

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. — Douglas Conant

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie? — John Greenleaf Whittier

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice. — Sandra Lee

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! — Margaret Junkin Preston

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. — Garrison Keillor

Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling. — Eden Robinson

Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later. — Unknown

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. — Edgar Allan Poe

I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe. — Lewis Black

Cherry Pie Quotes

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache. — Eric Carle

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie. — Edgar Guest

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life. — Tom Robbins

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. — June Jordan

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie. — Edward Abbey

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back. — RuPaul

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie. — Edgar Guest

I think she suspects something, though. We’ve had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row.” His voice drawled, and my smile deepened. — Kim Harrison

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life. — Nick Harkaway

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More Apple Pie Quotes

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

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. — John Piper

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

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie. — Jeremy Bulloch

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

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top. — Gabby Douglas

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. — Carl Sagan

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

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

I'm as American as apple pie. — Paul Mooney

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

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

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. — George Will

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not. — William Zinsser

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola. — James Howard Kunstler

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes. — Robert Greene

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way. — A. A. Milne

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. — George Will

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

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

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. — Harry Reasoner

When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie. — Homaro Cantu

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. — Charles Dickens

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

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin

God bless my soul! No apple pie. — Robert Oliver

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

The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese! — Eugene Field

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples! — Sam Donaldson

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

Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war. — Judy Blundell

A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. — Francesca Lia Block

I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie. — Dov Davidoff

Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities. — Susan Hale

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. — Srikumar Rao

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten? — Frederick Lenz

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie. — Tom Lehrer

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families. — Cynthia Heimel

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