Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.


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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPER
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. The...
HOMARO CANTU
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
HARE CHARLES
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
WALTER SCOTT
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Only one koan matters - you
IKKYU SOJUN
Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea; Are the emeralds of the spri...
THOMAS TOD STODDART
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and ...
ANDREW WYATT
Cherry Blossom through the breeze of dawn reminds me that the only everlasting love is self love whe...
RONN KHAN
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long fo...
YOSHIDA KENKō
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just pl...
NEWT GINGRICH
I never see that prettiest thing - / A cherry bough gone white with Spring - / But what I think, 'Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER
I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER
I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER
I would like to visit my parents' graves and to see cherry blossoms.
ISHINOSUKE UWANO
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
PABLO NERUDA
I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, fe...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring, But faded beauty has no second spring
AMBROSE PHILLIPS
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS
Love is the spring of humanity that brings forth joy to the world of two people in love.
LEAH DANCEL
The Lord Himself beholds, and He Himself blossoms forth.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The cherry tree myth is just that. When I do lectures I bring an old hatchet and say we just found t...
DEAN NORTON
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idl...
WU-MEN
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When id...
WU-MEN
What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind's ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
ALEXANDER POPE
It?s special because it brings the whole community together. Everything is coming to life, it?s spri...
AIMEE BOYD
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind...
KENKO YOSHIDA
Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls a...
MUNIA KHAN
Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
MOLLY MCGEE
When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silentl...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN
A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.
ARAKIDA MORITAKE
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatt...
KOTOMICHI
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...
HELEN KELLER
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
CHARLOTTE SMITH
Planting a tree is like having a baby
SOTONYE ANGA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Welcome to a beautiful day in Central City Park. I don't think we could order a better day. The cher...
CHIP CHERRY
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm th...
LORD EDWARD THURLOW
Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ...
SANDHYA JANE
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done wit...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows ...
VERNON HOWARD
If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please...
CRISS JAMI
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It...
DANIEL ABRAHAM
The desert may not bring forth vegetation but it brings forth moral values and gives birth to eterna...
MUAMMAR QADHAFI
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Spring on Cape Cod is in the eye of the beholder. You have to crack it open for the beauty to pour f...
ERIC LEVY
I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.
ISHINOSUKE UWANO
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
JAMES DOUGLAS
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree
JAMES DOUGLAS
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDA
Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
MARK TWAIN
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? s...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
PABLO NERUDA
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pic...
GRAEME MURPHY
April showers bring forth May flowers
PROVERB
My treasury is open but no one brings carts to take from it. I say, “Dig!” but no one bothers.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
This project is open to everyone on campus. We're trying to get volunteers to sign up and go over sp...
BRITTANY STANLEY
I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDA
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
JOHN RUSKIN
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers
JOHN KEATS
April showers brings May flowers.
ENGLISH PROVERB
The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And on...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES
She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
We are the nation's No. 1 spring-break destination for families. Orlando will have 18 million family...
DANIELLE COURTENAY
Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible – the tree of life grew there. But ...
JEAN RHYS
Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? A...
LEO TOLSTOY
Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.
MANGO WODZAK
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN
Trumpeting a one-year decline in spending may mean spring break lasts six days instead of seven days...
JOHN HART
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from whi...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In thei...
HOMARO CANTU
Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.
SCOTT ORVILLE BERGREN
They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER
We found there was an ebb in spirit in the winter, between winter and spring break.
ANDY ZWEIZIG
Sycophants are like termites that eat from inside even a tree bearing fruits & flowers and they are ...
ANUJ SOMANY
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ...
A BARTLETT GIAMATTI
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another tha...
MITCH ALBOM
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shad...
ALAN SEEGER
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
THOMAS TUSSER
The shad-bush, white with flowers, Brightened the glens; the new leaved butternut And quiverin...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
VICTOR HUGO
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and no...
PINK
A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those tha...
FORREST CURRAN
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the ye...
DONALD G. MITCHELL
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approac...
HEINRICH HEINE
We all know that people drink on spring break, and we all know that they have sex on spring break.
HILDA PETTIT
A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it b...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
BISHOP REGINALD HEBER

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