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Top 61 Pie Quotes

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Pie is tasty. Especially on Pi Day! With that in mind, check out the top 64 Pie quotes.

#61 – 60. Pie Quotes

61. Kitchens were different then, too – not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing. – Peg Bracken

60. God always has another custard pie up his sleeve. – Lynn Redgrave

#59 – 50. Pie Quotes

59. 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?’ – Sloane Crosley

58. “Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.” ― Yogi Berra

57. “We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses.” ― Janet Clarkson

56. You like pie? I like pie. – Barack Obama

55. “In his bachelor’s heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he usually refused. “Wouldn’t you like another piece of this nice coconut pie, Father?” he might be asked. “No, I don’t believe I’d care for anymore,” he’d say. An outright lie!” ― Jan Karon

54. A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine. – Julia Child

53. So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic. – Martha Stewart

52. “It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherently a surprise by virtue of its crust.” ― Janet Clarkson

51. In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’ – Maya Angelou

50. The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. – Mitchell Burgess

#49 – 40. Pie Quotes

49. “The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely its survival is endangered.” ― Janet Clarkson

48. “This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka!” ― Gerard Way

47. If I’m going to have something rich and yummy, I’m not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I’m going to make a pie from scratch. – Marisa Miller

46. We’re focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it’s not good enough to get you fat. We’re trying to get fat. – Shaquille O’Neal

45. “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

44. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

43. No one wants a cherry pie that bites back. – RuPaul

42. 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

41. I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy’s pie is growing a little faster, that’s terrific. – Howard Warren Buffett

40. “Whoever put steak and kidneys together in a pie made a serious error in judgment. — Nick Snowbeard”

#39 – 30. Pie Quotes

39. A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold. – Matthew Moy

38. “You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

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

36. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis

35. Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie’s not big enough, make a bigger pie. – Dave Thomas

34. “Surely we should try to save something that, when done well, is not only a supreme example of the art of cooking, but a dish that encapsulates humankind’s entire culinary history?” ― Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History

33. “Now, thats a pie!” ― James May

32. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. – Nora Ephron

31. There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. – Craig Claiborne

30. “America has developed a pie tradition unequivocally and unapologetically at the sweet end of the scale, and at no time is this better demonstrated than at Thanksgiving.” ― Janet Clarkson

#29 – 20. Pie Quotes

29. Pie…it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain. – Kevin James

28. “The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. “Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?” “Yep.” “Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?” “No, it’s a pie.” ― Ilona Andrews

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

26. Things that really matter are the things that gold can’t buy, so let’s have another cup o’ coffee and let’s have another piece o’ pie. – Irving Berlin

25. So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen. – Sylvia Plath

24. I don’t think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. – John Gould

23. Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around. – Bernie Mac

22. The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

21. Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims. – Craig Ferguson

20. “Pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics.” ― Janet Clarkson

#19 – 10. Pie Quotes

19. Humility means you’re willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie. – Frederick Lenz

18. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet

17. If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself. – Jay Leno

16. Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. – Leif Enger

15. “The First Law of Pies: ‘No Pastry, No Pie.” ― Janet Clarkson

14. Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there’s something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions. – Johnny Carson

13. “It is hardly surprising that to this day New England is considered to be the pie capital of America, whose inhabitants traditionally eat (sweet) pie for breakfast. Apple pies in particular became deeply embedded in the history of America – associated with the old country, the new country and the pioneering spirit, and indelibly identified with the sense of nationhood and patriotic sentiment.” ― Janet Clarkson

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

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

10. Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies. – Hilary Swank

#9 – 1. Pie Quotes

9. A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze. – Stephen King

8. Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. – Daniel Kahneman

7. Pie can’t compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone’s drunk in the kitchen. – Jim Gaffigan

6. “The Second Law of Pies: they must be baked, not fried (or boiled, or steamed).” ― Janet Clarkson

5. “Before there was wedding cake, there was bride pie.” ― Janet Clarkson

4. I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies. – Paula Deen

3. “In America, the unqualified word ‘pie’ unequivocally means a sweet dessert item, whereas in Australia it just as certainly means a meat pie.” ― Janet Clarkson

2. They don’t understand that a slice of the pie isn’t the whole pie – but they wonder why they are always hungry. – Russell Means

1. To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book. – Sarah Weeks

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