Bil Keane
9 quotes
Biography
William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment."
"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
"I don't just try to be funny."
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."
"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."
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."
"In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration."
"They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything."