Bil Keane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
-- Bil Keane

#Love #Friendship #Real Friends
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
-- Bil Keane

#Valentines Day #People #Hug
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
-- Bil Keane

#Lasts #Entertainment #Comic
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
-- Bil Keane

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme
-- Bil Keane

#Children #Love Is #Feelings
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
-- Bil Keane

#Heart #Waiting #Bitter
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
-- Bil Keane

#Tired #Simple #Gone
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.
-- Bil Keane

#Earth #Santa #Santa Claus
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
-- Bil Keane

#Mother #Children #Parenting
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
-- Bil Keane

#Father #Divorce #Daddy
Goal begins with "GO."
-- Bil Keane

#Goal
I don't just try to be funny.
-- Bil Keane

#Trying
Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face
-- Bil Keane

#Pace #Faces #Forget
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 Keane

#Looks #Magazines #Television
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 Keane

#Wall #Names #Drawing
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
-- Bil Keane

#Art #Taught #Homework
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
-- Bil Keane

#Character #Thinking #Cartoon
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
-- Bil Keane

#Real #Inspiration #Cartoon
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.
-- Bil Keane

#Heart #Eye #Laughing
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 Keane

#Teacher #School #Drawing
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.
-- Bil Keane

#Drawing #Laughing #Important
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
-- Bil Keane

#Names #Use #Done
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.
-- Bil Keane

#Mother #Father #Kids

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