Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sherman Hemsley

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

Tom Allen

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

Nina Hagen

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

Mark Russell

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Andrews

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

Ronald Reagan

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

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Tori Amos

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.

Rob Sheffield

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

Timothy Leary

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Trey Parker

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

Sarah Dessen

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

Sarah Dessen

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

Robert Plant

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

Robert Plant

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

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 hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Woody Guthrie

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Katy Perry

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Terence McKenna

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.

Kylie Minogue

I could see myself as a glitter-hippie.

Robert M. Pirsig

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

Todd Akin

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