Melinda Gates Quotes

"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Life)

"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Home, Talk)

"We started this mostly from an intellectual place."
- Melinda Gates

"We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Light)

"I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Life, Children, Want)

"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Growing up, Kids, Name, Nothing)

"But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along."
- Melinda Gates

"Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Children)

"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
- Melinda Gates
(Related: Causes, Leading, World)