Berry Blossom Festival

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

    Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
    —T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)

    how seasonably
    leaf and blossom uncurl
    and living things arrange their death,
    while someone from afar off
    blows birthday candles for the world.
    Irving Layton (b. 1912)

    Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”Man innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”Ma hard rhyme; for “school,” “fool”Ma babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)