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.
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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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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 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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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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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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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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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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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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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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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