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:

    “Holly: Oh, Brad, I’d do my act in clown alley or the horse stop for you. I’d do anything if it was just for you.
    Brad: Pigeon, look. Out under the sky you know how I feel about you. But under the Big Top one performer’s just like another to me.”
    —Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)

    “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)

    “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)