East coast Quote by Walter Isaacson

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The…

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Timothy Leary

I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side,…

— Winona Ryder

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

— Carl Sagan

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and…

— King O'Malley

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..

— James M. Barrie

Mill Valley, where I grew up, was a flower-power place. It's been yuppified now - more like Beverly Hills than Berkeley - it used…

— Monica Barbaro

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

— Illmaculate

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

— Don DeLillo

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really…

— Derek Ridgers

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

— Charles Manson

Hippies.Theyre everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

— Eric Cartman