Cartoon Quotes by Bil Keane

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

— Bil Keane

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the…

— Bil Keane

I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her…

— Bil Keane

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

— Bil Keane

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

— Bil Keane

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

— Bil Keane

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a…

— Bil Keane

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

— Bil Keane

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

— Bil Keane

Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into…

— Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you…

— Bil Keane

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

— Bil Keane