Breen Quotes

#1. I picked up the back of the shirt, the light breen scales shimmering in the makeshift lighting of the bathroom. Something light swims up inside of me. Something like hope.
Maybe I would be able to do it.

K. Weikel

#2. Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.

Eric Berlin

#3. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

Mike Breen

#4. There seem to be three different ways that we learn, but unequivocally, we learn best when there is a dynamic interplay between all three at one time: 1) Classroom/Lecture passing on of information 2) Apprenticeship 3) Immersion

Mike Breen

#5. ...we hope with the assistance of Almighty God to be able to live to see the bare surface of the earth once more.

Patrick Breen

#6. I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

Galit Breen

#7. For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Steve Breen

#8. She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.

Susan Breen

#9. Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness.

Susan Breen

#10. The Sun rules our inner personalities - who we are to those who know us best.

Rosemary Breen

#11. No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

Steve Breen

#12. Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

Steve Breen

#13. Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

Mike Breen

#14. I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that.

Steve Breen

#15. Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.

Steve Breen

#16. You possess a unique, innate ability to see most aspects of most situations all at once!

Rosemary Breen

#17. There is another side to the Pisces nature and that is the brutal honesty that can catch others off guard.

Rosemary Breen

#18. aim for "low control, high accountability

Mike Breen

#19. I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

Steve Breen

#20. My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.

Steve Breen

#21. When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

Steve Breen

#22. Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

Steve Breen

#23. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

Mike Breen

#24. As we make disciples and mobilize God's people for mission, the methodology we use must be congruent with the way of Jesus. We need to learn how to do family on mission.

Mike Breen

#25. It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

Steve Breen

#26. As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

Steve Breen

#27. I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

Steve Breen

#28. I remember the first time I drove mum's car. We just went to a car park near my house, and it actually wasn't too bad. I felt quite confident straight away.

Melissa Breen

#29. Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.

Galit Breen

#30. Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.

Susan Breen

#31. When people merge, they just brake so much. Just drive and merge.

Melissa Breen

#32. balance invitation and challenge appropriately

Mike Breen

#33. While a Sagittarian tends to be candid, there's also a part of them that could be described as being more devious than Pisces, more deceptive than Gemini and more carnal than Scorpio.

Rosemary Breen

#34. It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.

Steve Breen

#35. When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Steve Breen

#36. If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.

Mike Breen

#37. My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

Steve Breen

#38. I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.

Steve Breen

#39. Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Steve Breen

#40. If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide.

Mike Breen

#41. A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

Steve Breen

#42. Why do you need to brake? Find your place, just be confident, and drive into it.

Melissa Breen

#43. Chances are, while you can come across as introverted, the real reason for your apparent reserve is you're happy to be the life of your own party (be it in your head or in your own space) rather than follow the crowd.

Rosemary Breen

#44. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

Melissa Breen

#45. The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.

Mike Breen

#46. The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel emotionally safe and secure.

Rosemary Breen

#47. The message was clear: to be a disciple meant that you learn how to make disciples - an ever-multiplying movement meant to bless the whole world.

Mike Breen

#48. Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Steve Breen

#49. the purpose of a family on mission is to multiply the life of Jesus by reproducing ourselves into the lives of others, so they become disciples of Jesus who can then reproduce themselves into the lives of others.

Mike Breen

#50. Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Steve Breen

#51. I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

Steve Breen

#52. After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

Melissa Breen

#53. You become part of the family by surrendering your agenda and joining God's deal.

Mike Breen

#54. Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.

Steve Breen

#55. the world you are forced to inhabit does not match up to the world

Rosemary Breen

#56. My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen

#57. We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Steve Breen

#58. The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

Mike Breen

#59. We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

Mike Breen

#60. When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.

Steve Breen

#61. I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.

Melissa Breen

#62. The ascendant rules the outer personality - the way a person actually presents to the world.

Rosemary Breen

#63. No man can judge what a woman does to feed herself, for no man will ever be in her position. At

Tom Breen

#64. I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Steve Breen