OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. — Bil Keane Gift from god Copy Share Image
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time. — Bil Keane Christmas Copy Share Image
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. — Bil Keane Hugs Copy Share Image
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral. — Bil Keane Cathedrals Copy Share Image
I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids.… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education… — Bil Keane Catholic Copy Share Image
I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons. — Bil Keane Cartoons Copy Share Image
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my… — Bil Keane Art Copy Share Image
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the… — Bil Keane Caricatures Copy Share Image
Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers… — Bil Keane Books Copy Share Image
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my… — Bil Keane Circus Copy Share Image
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane Future Copy Share Image
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. — Bil Keane Comic Copy Share Image
Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen… — Bil Keane Humor Copy Share Image
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to… — Bil Keane Australian Copy Share Image
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing… — Bil Keane Cartoons Copy Share Image
