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