Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANEToday is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
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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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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 in the heart.
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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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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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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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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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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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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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.
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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’ out of me.
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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 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 in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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