“Pink Japanese cherry blossoms kiss April’s soft blue summer skies.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun! — Motoori Norinaga Copy Share Image
“But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't… — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the wilful celebration of the self. The Cherry Blossom blooms but it does not try to be a Lotus Flower.” — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
“Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara no Narihira Copy Share Image
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the… — Fujiwara no Teika Copy Share Image
“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Cherry blossom lipstick applied to full, pouty lips to perfection, check. Smoky eyes, check. The hazel color does throw off the smoke… — Apryl Baker Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“Life is fragile Grace – it is no more than a petal of cherry blossom; thriving and in full bloom one minute… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and… — Asai Ryoi Copy Share Image
“Lord Karasumaru considered it a grave mistake on the part of the gods to have made a man like himself a nobleman.… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“[And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterwards it seemed able to… — Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I thought of how Midori had once articulated the idea of mono no aware, a sensibility that, though frequently obscured during cherry… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I was in Tokyo for my birthday this year and it was kind of sad because Freddie was working. And it was… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
“In Japanese culture, the significance of the cherry blossom tree dates back hundreds of years. The cherry blossom represents the fragility and… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent… — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
“I moved deeper into the comforting gloom, along a stone walkway covered in cherry blossoms that lay like tenebrous snow in the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Blood fountained in an arterial spray that wet her face, turned the cherry blossoms black, but she was already shoving the blade… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“Cursing, Kyle opened the bottom cabinet and found a bottle of scented lotion. Cherry Blossom. What irony.” — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“Grandmama said that the cherry blossom was life. Sweet and beautiful, but so darn short. Too short not to do what you… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
