Cherry Blossom Quotes

21 quotes by 16 authors

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking… — Yoshida Kenko
On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth… — Yoshida Kenko
We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and… — William McDonough
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. — Maxine Hong Kingston
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and… — Ruth Ozeki
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Newt Gingrich
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry… — Rajneesh
However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening. — Fujiwara no Teika
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk. — Fujiwara no Teika
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and… — Homaro Cantu
What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. — Kobayashi Issa
Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look… — Audrey Niffenegger
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom. — Matsuo Basho
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the… — Lynn Austin
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and… — Sylvia Plath
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for… — Peggy Orenstein
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — Matsuo Basho
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry… — Homaro Cantu

Who Wrote These Cherry Blossom Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 21 Cherry Blossom Quotes as follows: