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:

    “Whale on the beach, you dinosaur,
    what brought you smoothing into this dead harbor?
    If you’d stayed inside you could have grown
    as big as the Empire State.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
    —Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)

    “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)