Big Apple Circus

The Big Apple Circus is a circus that is based in New York City. Opened in 1977, it has become a tourist attraction as well.

Famous quotes containing the words big, apple and/or circus:

    “We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “The apple tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It beats sitting around with my butt in a sling.”
    —Antoinette Cancello, U.S. circus aerialist. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 35 (January 1976)