Famous quotes containing the words american, apple and/or pie:
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.18171895)
“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. womens magazine contributor. The Womans Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)
“No mans pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)