Hippie Quotes · Page 9

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

— Abbie Hoffman

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

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

— George Andrews

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

— Carole Radziwill

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by…

— Melissa Leo

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

— Anonymous

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

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic…

— Walter Isaacson

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes.…

— Drew Barrymore

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something -…

— Jim Jarmusch

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up…

— Charles Kelley

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of…

— Rick Riordan

People are going to say, "I was a lesbian back in the 90s" just like people say, "I was a hippie in…

— John Waters

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

— Gail Bradbrook

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

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

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother…

— Jared Leto

I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people…

— Jesse Metcalfe

The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be…

— Germaine Greer

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it…

— Charles de Lint

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

— Nina Hagen

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

— Ben Elton

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

— Joe Gallivan

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there…

— Jane Fonda

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met…

— Lana Parrilla

“She was a hippie. I could tell, even dressed in a red prisoner jumpsuit. She had some haphazard braids in her hair,…

— David Wong

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with…

— Janis Joplin

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters'…

— Joel Kinnaman

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in…

— Greg Jackson

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest…

— Coy Bowles

My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never…

— Jessica Biel

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still…

— John Hughes

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical…

— Sandra Bernhard

It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's…

— Grace Slick