Top 95 Hippie Quotes

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren’t posh.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts… Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman… The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year’s Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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

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.

I believe in all sorts of hippie stuff.

Now I’m old… maybe I’m still an eccentric hippie. There’s a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity – you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don’t have to be constrained. I think that’s why people are eccentric – eccentricity is a weapon… and it’s great!

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.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

I’m flowing and letting things happen as they happen. I want to be living out of suitcases on the road. I’m open to the universe, whatever comes my way. I feel like a hippie – but hey, it works.

I’m very much a hippie from Northern California.

I’ll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I’ll want to do something random with ballet, and then I’ll want to be a hippie caterpillar in an animation film. Who knows what will come my way, but I’m going to try and put little hints into the universe, and hopefully they’ll float on by.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

I took a job at a factory in New Jersey to try to save money to go to Europe. When I took the job, I set a date for quitting. I was going to hitchhike around, be a hippie, see the world. I just wanted to be responsible long enough to get up the money to get there and trip around.

As a child I ate all sorts of veg because my mother was a hippie and grew them all and made our clothes.

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the ’60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

When I was younger, it was very easy to ignore me because I was like some crazy hippie kid. But as I’ve gotten older, and I’m more gray and more lines on my face, it has given me a lot more gravitas.

I was a political hippie.

I have what some people consider to be a ‘hippie’ mentality.

I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I’ve been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity – they weren’t liberal Christians by any means, they were pretty conservative – but they preached mostly about love and caring for people, so I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn’t know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer – a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer – and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

There is a secret hippie within me.

I’ve always been like a black hippie.

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

I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I’ve always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

I wasn’t a Deadhead, and I didn’t follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo’s record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune – a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it’s probably one of the items that mean most to me.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I’m actually just a hippie at heart.

My dad’s a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative.

For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

I’m a hippie child of the ’60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it’s so often devoid of any ideas.

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 an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

I love flowy hippie dresses.

Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what’s going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I’m an old hippie from San Francisco.

I’m like a hippie. At the end of the day, that’s what my voice caters to.

I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.

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

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don’t know that I’m most people’s definition of what a black person is. I’m mixed, yes, but in the world I’m defined as black before I’m defined white. I’ve never been called white.

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

There’s nothing wrong with being a hippie.

I’ve been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot.

When I was in the California legislature in the ’80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put ‘organic’ on it.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can’t take myself too seriously.

Never trust a hippie. That’s definitely my motto.

I am a certified hippie and I love nature.

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.

I’m a bit of a hippie.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

My hair is way, way long. I’ve hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I’ve ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

With my grandparents, it was almost like a hippie lifestyle. I could do whatever I wanted. If I didn’t want to do my homework, I didn’t do it.

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

Much like the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street’s message has gotten wrapped up in stereotypes. The Tea Party was weighed down by the birther movement, and Occupy Wall Street has gotten looped in with hippie culture.