I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
BIL KEANEToday is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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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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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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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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Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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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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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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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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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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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 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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