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.
BIL KEANEYesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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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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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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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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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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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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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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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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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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Goal begins with “GO.”
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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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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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