Top 1200 American Pie Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.

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

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.

I love apple pie. If I see one, I'm going to eat the whole thing.

Chicken pot pie--those are my three favorite things.

Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

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

I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people - I had to make it work in other ways.

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

As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name, but on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.

There's certain cakes you've got to have, maybe a pie here and there. But I know to not do it as much.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

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

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.

The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.