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:
“Lay down, lay down the bigly bier,
Lat me the dead look on;
Wi cherry cheeks and ruby lips
She lay an smild on him.
O ae sheave o your bread, true-love,
An ae glass o your wine,
For I hae fasted for your sake
These fully day [is] nine.”
—Anna Gordon Brown (17471810)
“O that this blossom could be kept from cankers!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to lady but babyMan innocent rhyme; for scorn, hornMa hard rhyme; for school, foolMa babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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