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:

    “I think it was your cherry pies.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)