Quotes About Coney Island

#1. And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#2. I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

Jerry Della Femina

#3. You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#4. Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

#5. They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

Bob Dylan

#6. It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

E. E. Cummings

#7. I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

Harold Feinstein

#8. My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

Gilbert Gottfried

#9. This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else ironically chants back, 'Mother Russia.

Jon Ronson

#10. Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#12. Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

Harold Feinstein

#13. I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#14. Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#15. Telling over to myself/ how beauty never dies/ but lies apart/ among the aborigines/ of art/ and far above the battlefields/ of love
pg. 23// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#16. I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

#17. I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#18. I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

#19. From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Frances Beinecke

#20. Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru
pg. 31// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#21. Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

Arlo Guthrie

#22. I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

David Blaine

#23. I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

Rodney Dangerfield

#24. Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#25. ...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.

H.P. Wood

#26. And balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#27. Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Elbert Hubbard

#28. And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#29. Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

Harold Feinstein

#30. When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

Vivica A. Fox

#31. Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge ... . But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Howard E. Koch

#32. Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#33. Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap

Lawrence Ferlinghetti