A Quote by Bill Nye

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Bill Nye

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Better Better Than You Found Leave Other People Pick Sometimes Than Trash Up World

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Bill Nye
American - Educator
Born: November 27, 1955

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

Eric Close

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

Marian Wright Edelman

Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.

Lauren Oliver

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

Gene Simmons

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

Stella Benson

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Robert Baden-Powell

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

Tim McIlrath

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Dave Kellett

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

Patricia Cornwell

I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.

Jared Isaacman

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

Ronda Rousey

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Paul Auster

Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.