Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Parker

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Robert Plant

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Shia LaBeouf

My family, my parents are hippies.

Joy Bryant

I love flowy hippie dresses.

Margot Robbie

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

Josh Hartnett

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Jimi Hendrix

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

Jimi Hendrix

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

John Lydon

I've always despised the hippies.

Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Bobby Seale

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

David Bowie

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

Ann Coulter

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Corey Feldman

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

Timothy Leary

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

Robert Anton Wilson

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Rick Riordan

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Sonia Rykiel

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Ted Nugent

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Mark Russell

You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.

James A. Garfield

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

George Harrison

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

Jerry Lee Lewis

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

J. G. Ballard

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Jack Kerouac

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Bianca Jagger

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Ethan Suplee

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.