Quotes by Bil Keane - Page 1

Goal begins with "GO."
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
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I don't just try to be funny.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
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A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Friendship
Happiness
Love
Boomerang
Cute Best Friend
Hug
Real Friends
Like
Get
Away
Back
Right
Right Away
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Powerful
Yesterday And Today
Yesterday Is History
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Home
Peaceful
Sacred
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Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Laughter
Attended
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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Daddy
Divorce
Father
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Bitter
Heart
Waiting
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Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Faces
Forget
Pace
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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Valentine's Day
Hug
People
Valentines Day
Love People Anything
Anything
Them
Without
Hugs
Invented
Saying
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OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Parenting
Busy
Children
Mother
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Earth
Happy Times
Santa
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We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Five
Cartoons
Dearly
Exploited
Whom
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Family
Humor
Comic
Entertainment
Lasts
Comics
Wholesome
Frontier
Last
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Future
Time
Past
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Time Today Tomorrow
Future Today Tomorrow
Why
Future Time Today
Future Time Tomorrow
Gift
Present
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I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Cartoon
Character
Novelty
Thinking
Cartoon Characters
Cross
Occasionally
Panel
Strip
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I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Family
Happened
Portraying
Family Me Everything
Through
Eyes
Strip
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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
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Children
Feelings
Love Is
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I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Drawing
Life My Life School
Board
Publications
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Art
Homework
Imitating
Taught
Studied
Cartoonists
Draw
Instead
New Yorker
Yorker
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Belly
Eye
Heart
Laughing
Nostalgia
Throat
Cartoons
Laugh
Lump
Tear
Tug
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Family
Cartoon
Circus
Inspiration
Pennsylvania
Perspiration
Real
Started
Cartoons
Provided
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Drawing
Names
Wall
Always Me Parents
Named
Bill
Name
Cartoons
Parents
Spell
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I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Girl
Australian
Brown
Enough
Ask
Alongside
Date
Desk
Beautiful Most Beautiful Long
Her
Most Beautiful
Nerve
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Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Jesus
Humor
Laughing
Leaving
Sense Of Humor
Humor People Sense Of Humor
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Kids
Dear
Father
Mother
Love Family Me
Love Family Father
Near
Subject
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Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Catholic
Catholic School
Discipline
Good Education
Home Life
Life Education Good
Attended
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Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single-parent family and mixed family units.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Corny
Typical
Units
Wonder
Hat
Mixed
Observations
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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
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Needs
Simple
Tired
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Belly
Drawing
Important
Laughing
Throat
Warmth
Love Me Important
Love Me Day
Drawings
Every Day
Laugh
Lump
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Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Levity
Religious
Religious Person
Carrying
Comics
Congratulate
Strictest
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Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Particular
Prefer
Family Home Country
Street
Readers
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Movies
Acceptable
Comic
Looks
Magazines
Radio
Television
Family Movies Look
Depend
Entire
Page
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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.
Bil Keane / Cartoonist
Teacher
Caricatures
Catholic
Drawing
Events
High School
Late
Notoriety
Philadelphia
School
Teachers
High
Magazine
Northeast
Published
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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 / Cartoonist
Circus
Compliment
Done
Estimation
Including
Letterman
Names
Popularity
Television
Television Shows
Use
Warm
David
David Letterman
Feature
Image
Network
Network Television
Sets
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