Top 143 Hippies Quotes & Sayings

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

My family were pretty big hippies.

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

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

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

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.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

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

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 the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.

Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

My family, my parents are hippies.

I've always despised the hippies.

L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.

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

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

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.

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

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

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

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

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I felt connected to the place and the legendary things that had come before me historically that I'd missed.

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

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

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to say well, these are the angry young men, these are the hippies, these are the boomers.

Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.

I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

My parents were hippies.

I'm lucky. My parents are, like, super hippies. They were just happy I was going to school and I wasn't getting in trouble.

Real hippies don't like me at all. They can smell a real hippy.

The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

Liberalism is correlated with high openness and low conscientiousness, and when you think of Lib Dems they're absent-minded professors and hippies. They're the early adopters... they're highly open to new ideas.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

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

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.

Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.