Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonia Rykiel

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

Tom Wolfe

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

Steve Kanaly

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Steve Earle

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Tommy Chong

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

Todd Akin

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Sam Farr

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

Tom Lehrer

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

Shailene Woodley

Do you guys have any raw garlic?

Shailene Woodley

I only shampoo [my hair] once a month.

Shailene Woodley

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

Shailene Woodley

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.

Sherman Hemsley

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Tom Allen

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Nina Hagen

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Mark Driscoll

I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

Ted Nugent

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

Ted Nugent

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

Ted Nugent

Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie…Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value…Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

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.

John Shimkus

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Jim Gibbons

Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].

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.'

George Harrison

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Erin Wasson

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

Cat Stevens

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

Gale Norton

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

Grace Slick

It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

Glenn Frey

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.