Bil Keane Quotes

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• OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
• Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
• Goal begins with "GO."
• I don't just try to be funny.
• 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 subject…
• A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
• Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
• They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
• I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L'…
• I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
• I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
• Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug…
• We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing…
• I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump…
• Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use…
• 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 can…
• Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face
• Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

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