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Quotes About Pies

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.
~ Sarah Weeks
as I [Eve] was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never occurred to Adam... It is true that at times he criticised my cooking, but in view of certain ancestral limitations from which he suffered, I never had to sit quietly and listen to an exasperating disquisition on the Pies That Mother Used To Make...
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
~ George Bernard Shaw
I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.
~ Ruth Reichl
Mrs. Wood was indeed making pies. She was taking the third pie out of the oven. When she looked up and saw
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
The sweet smell of baking crust rolled under her nose from the Four-and-Twenty Blackbird Pie Shop, though Cedar knew for a fact that the pies were made from pumpkin, apple, or pomegranate meringue and not birds. If you bought a pie, stuck in your thumb, and pulled out a plum, you won a tinsel crown.
~ Shannon Hale
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
~ Hilary Swank
My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day. My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day." The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hear, so he stopped and said: "What was that you were singing, my good woman?" The woman was ashamed to let him hear what her daughter had been doing, so she sang, instead of that: "My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.
~ Joseph Jacobs
Well, come supper-time the woman said: "Go you, and get one o' them there pies. I dare say they've come again now.
~ Joseph Jacobs
I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
The most common error a person tends to commit in pie making is to fail to let it cool in fresh air. If you cut into it straight out of the oven, the juice runs everywhere. People have no patience when it comes to pies.
~ Susan Wiggs
Pies are so much fun to make—and so simple! All it takes to make a tender, flaky crust is the right amount of vegetable shortening, cut into flour with a sprinkle of cold water, and just a pinch of salt. Cherries have the right sweet-to-tart taste—and are also a good source of poison! Just crush the pits or stems. There you'll find prussic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide: easy to sprinkle into both the filling and the crust. How sweet it is!
~ Josie Brown
In his three-piece suit and expensive hat, Hooper came stepping across the pasture, being very careful to avoid the cow pies. When he reached the pumpkin patch, he walked right up to Farmer Ben and held out his hand. Ben made no move to shake it. "As you wish, Ben," said Hooper, lowering his hand. "Five, four, three, two, one, zero!" "What's that?" said Ben. "You going into the rocket-ship business?
~ Stan Berenstain
And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau
~ Tamora Pierce
I won't demonstrate how I yell 'Go Pies!' because my children nearly have a heart-attack when it comes out. It's the one time that I'm really noisy! I've never said that to anyone before - no one even knows I'm a Pies supporter.
~ Asher Keddie
I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.
~ Kristen Stewart
Drake. He liked dangerous pies. Why did he join you? Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it? Focus. Why did he join you? Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache. p. 432
~ Brandon Mull
Lord Courtenay: 2 peacocks; 3 sheep, 5 geese; 2 pigs; sundry pies and pastries .£4. 3.6 1 June 1475 Boots for my lord Simon...................................... 12.6
~ Kate Ellis
I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
~ Nora Ephron
Guthrie handed him the mug, a wee pout pulling his pale face out of shape. With his semi-skimmed skin, faint ginger hair, and blond eyebrows he looked like a ghost that had been at the pies. "Milk, two sugars.
~ Stuart MacBride
I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.
~ Kristen Stewart
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.
~ George R.R. Martin
Mother, scarlet with heat, trotted frantically around the kitchen making scones, cakes, apple turnovers, and brandysnaps, stews, pies, jellies, and trifles.
~ Gerald Durrell
I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.
~ Johnny Iuzzini