Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Peterson

I could get new pants if I weren't such a hippie freak.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Neil Young

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

Neil Young

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

Joe Strummer

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Oprah Winfrey

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Kid Rock

I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

P. J. O'Rourke

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

Mary McCarthy

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Patton Oswalt

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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 - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.

Nancy Pelosi

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Mark Driscoll

I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

Ted Nugent

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

Ted Nugent

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

Ted Nugent

Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie…Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value…Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

George Andrews

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

Jimi Hendrix

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Jimi Hendrix

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

Jimi Hendrix

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Sherman Hemsley

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Tom Allen

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

John Shimkus

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.

Johnny Ramone

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

Ronald Reagan

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah

Nina Hagen

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

Gabriel Mann

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.

Joseph Wambaugh

Civil servants take forever to do anything.