Hippie Quotes

My parents were hippies.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

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

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

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

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

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

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

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 locked the front door.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

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.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

There is a secret hippie within me.

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

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

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

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

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

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

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

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

My family, my parents are hippies.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

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

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

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

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.