Words matter. These are the best Bil Keane Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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.
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.
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.
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
I don’t just try to be funny.
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.
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.
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me.
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.
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.
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
