Cherry Blossom Festival

Cherry Blossom Festival may refer to:

  • National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC
  • The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
  • Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, a spring celebration
  • The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey
  • The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA (Japan town)
  • International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA
  • Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of celebrating the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms
  • An annual festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York

Famous quotes containing the words cherry, blossom and/or festival:

    “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
    Is hung with bloom along the bough,
    And stands about the woodland ride
    Wearing white for Eastertide.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
    Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
    O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
    How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)