Cherry Tree Quotes

#1. This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice. - Author: Dorothy Maywood Bird

#2. I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees - Author: Pablo Neruda

#3. I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree. - Author: Dorothy Parker

#4. Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything. - Author: Jo Walton

#6. Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree. - Author: George Washington

#7. There is no stranger under the cherry tree. - Author: Kobayashi Issa

#8. There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest. - Author: Ruskin Bond

#9. The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track. - Author: Bret Easton Ellis

#10. The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms. - Author: Matsuo Basho

#11. It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine - Author: L.M. Montgomery

#12. The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. - Author: Quentin Crisp

#13. A sweet gum tree is the chameleon of wood, it's corky exterior hiding it's inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to mahogany. But it's real value, one unrealized by most people, is it's deep red heart, steady and strong. - Author: Katherine Allred

#14. It occurred to him that, much in the way one experiences a brightening when walking beneath a cherry tree in bloom,so too did Klara generate and throw light. - Author: Patrick DeWitt

#15. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough. - Author: A.E. Housman

#16. I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. - Author: Saigyo

#17. Tolkien's words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. - Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien - Author: Neil Gaiman

#18. If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. - Author: P.L. Travers

#19. I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#20. Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils. - Author: Tom Robbins

#21. Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom. - Author: Ikkyu

#22. The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible. - Author: Jurgen Moltmann

#23. Only in dreams of spring
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees. - Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

#24. Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms. - Author: Ikkyu

#25. Today I will find something beautiful.
Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.
The dove resting near the lemon buds.
Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.
Smiling on me.
"Creating" in BREATHE IN - Author: Eileen Granfors

#26. 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 blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries. - Author: Homaro Cantu

#27. Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree. - Author: Tammy Blackwell

#28. Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit ... plant a cherry tree. - Author: Coleen Murtagh Paratore

#29. We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better. - Author: J.B. Priestley

#30. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem - Author: William McDonough

#31. There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream." - Author: Taylor Branch

#32. When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever. - Author: Andrew Wyatt

#33. I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. - Author: George Washington

#34. 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 the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. - Author: Homaro Cantu

#35. Oh, sweet cherry tree-
how lovely your blossoms are.
Spring brings joy to life. - Author: A.K. White

#36. The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree. - Author: William McDonough

#37. Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days. - Author: Philip Whalen

#38. I cannot tell a lie. It was me who
chopped down the cherry tree. Now that
I've been so honest, make me a
precedent. No, not president. I said
precedent. - Author: Ali Smith

#39. The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it's perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it's only absolutely perfect when it's falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!. - Author: David Mitchell

#40. His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment.
This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#41. From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. - Author: Matsuo Basho