Breen Quotes & Sayings

As Linda says again and again, the simple life isn't the easy life. Each soul here is enormously courageous. The conflicts in their lives have not been trivial. It's taken most of them a great deal of time, introspection and explanation to arrive at their chosen sanity. They are intrepid explorers, leaving the security of the known for the hoped-for brighter tomorrow. — Linda Breen Pierce

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

The Sun rules our inner personalities - who we are to those who know us best. — Rosemary Breen

You possess a unique, innate ability to see most aspects of most situations all at once! — Rosemary Breen

THE NEW

All that appeared true seems to be coming unglued;
All that was established is being questioned anew;
All that was in place is being quickly erased;

We are coming to a crossroad on a collision course and the train is rapidly accelerating;
The winds of the New are howling and anxious to be embraced;
The usual is blinding and needs to be replaced;

So turn it around and rethink your thoughts;
The old ways are going and the cracks are showing;
Reshape the unchangeable and shake the unshakable;
Then face the new light with its brilliance absorbing you;

Now you've left behind what shouldn't have been and attained a new plateau to view the past;
When you arise the old will be left in the wake;
And you will go forward to a better place.

The Complaint, page 34. — Tom Breen

The ascendant rules the outer personality - the way a person actually presents to the world. — Rosemary Breen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything. — Steve Breen

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

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

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

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

Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle. — Eric Berlin

Invitation is about being invited into a relationship where you have access to a person's life and all the vibrancy, safety, love and encouragement that reside there. To learn from the places you clearly see Jesus at work in people's lives, which you can see only by having access to them. But by accepting that invitation, you also accept the challenge that comes with it: The challenge to live into your identity as a son or daughter of the King. — Mike Breen

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

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

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

Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland. — Steve Breen

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

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something. — Mike Breen

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

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

Where kairos is an event word - something that has a beginning and ending - repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a specific beginning and ending. One does not become a disciple of Jesus and stand still; discipleship is a lifestyle of learning. And this learning begins with a change of heart. — Mike Breen

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture. — Mike Breen

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

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news. — Steve Breen

When people merge, they just brake so much. Just drive and merge. — Melissa Breen

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

the world you are forced to inhabit does not match up to the world — Rosemary Breen

Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning. — Galit Breen

On the one hand, you have a wonderfully caring, magnetic personality that draw people in close. On the other hand, you come across as standoffish, even reclusive. While both personalities are, in fact, who you are, at any one moment which side you show to the world depends on who you are with and the circumstances you are in. — Rosemary Breen

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

...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

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

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. — Steve Breen

Why do you need to brake? Find your place, just be confident, and drive into it. — Melissa Breen

You are fortunate to be an Aquarius because you are known as the humanitarian zodiac sign. You are progressive in your thinking, which is reflected in every aspect of your life. You do not like being told how to live your life, and you will make your decisions clear to anyone who dares question them. You are energetic, with a zest for life. Unfortunately, society's boundaries can still be insurmountable, even for an Aquarian such as yourself. You are very much in charge of your own destiny and, if something or someone gets in the way of your aspirations, you won't give up on your goals easily. This perseverance earns you respect from others, even if they disagree with what you are hoping to accomplish. — Rosemary Breen

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

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

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

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

There is another side to the Pisces nature and that is the brutal honesty that can catch others off guard. — Rosemary Breen

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

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address. — Steve Breen

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

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

balance invitation and challenge appropriately — Mike Breen

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

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections. — Mike Breen

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents. — Melissa Breen

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

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

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

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

aim for "low control, high accountability — Mike Breen

You become part of the family by surrendering your agenda and joining God's deal. — Mike Breen

Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work. — Steve Breen

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint. — Steve Breen

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

Generally speaking, it is Pisces who provides most of the emotional input into your relationship but that doesn't mean The Goat is unfeeling or insensitive. Moreover, it is the Fish who provides the extreme highs and low in your relationship and, strangely enough, it is this rollercoaster ride that helps Pisces cope with the monotony and routine and control that is the Goat's preferred way of living. — Rosemary Breen

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

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

Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature. — Steve Breen

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

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

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