Top 29 Quotes by Melinda Gates

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

All lives have an equal value.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

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

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

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.