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Bil Keane Quotes

American - Cartoonist | October 5, 1922 - November 8, 2011

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Future Today Time Past Tomorrow Why

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Love Valentine's Day People Saying

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

Happiness You Back Hug Right Get

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.

Family Name Warm Friends Loving

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Family Good Humor Entertainment Last

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.

School Me High School Drawing Late

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art Myself Day Homework Doing New

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.

Love Day Me Laugh Every Day More

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.

Parents Me Name Drawing Wall Out

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

Family Circus Inspiration Started

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.

Family Love Father Mother Me Doing

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.

Heart Eye Laugh Nostalgia Go Belly

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