Hippie Quotes · Page 5

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

— Margaret Trudeau

“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ”

— John-Paul Cernak

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh.

— Abhay Deol

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before.…

— Jacob deGrom

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

— Lemmy

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

— Rob Sheffield

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

— Bernadette Devlin

The real hippie is trying to create something inclusive, something holistic, something loving and healthy which isn't in perpetual conflict with authority…

— Devendra Banhart

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often…

— Clarence Darrow

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my…

— Drew Barrymore

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my…

— Shirley Manson

I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in…

— Lykke Li

I was with much nicer people in the Navy. On Tiga, you had a lesbian, a hippie, a homosexual and this neurologist…

— Rudy Boesch

I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares,…

— Max Pam

I do have little trinkets. I'm a little bit of a hippie, so I have my wisdom rock - it goes with…

— Mickie James

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And -…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as…

— Paulo Coelho

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.…

— China Mieville

I didn't even have a portfolio, but I went to Tom Ford the next morning. He said, "I'd love you to come…

— Francisco Costa

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism.…

— Timothy Leary

In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a…

— Gail Bradbrook

[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You…

— John Ehrlichman

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have…

— Eartha Kitt

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in…

— Bruce Hornsby

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Nina Hagen

“Being a depressed hippie is a lose-lose. It would be like if a rice cake had the caloric content of a MoonPie.”

— Adam Carolla

I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.

— Wyclef Jean

I spent my summers as a kid in an upstate New York hippie town called Saugerties.

— Carole Radziwill

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

— Anonymous

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.

— George Andrews

I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.

— Conchata Ferrell

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

— Ethan Suplee

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

— Sienna Miller

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

— David Lee Roth

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

— Damon Albarn

We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.

— Patton Oswalt

I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark…

— Dreama Walker