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 the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
BIL KEANEI 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 that is near and dear to me.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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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 usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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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 that is near and dear to me.
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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 usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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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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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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 that is near and dear to me.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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