Melinda Gates Quotes

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

I just wanted to be able to say that I raised my kids and my family around a better environment than I was brought up in.

A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history. But we can do much better. I prefer the word hope over optimism.

I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

There may be illegitimate parents but there are no illegitimate children.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Children are born into a society in which they are not a priority.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.

As parents, we all want the best for our children.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too.

I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.

I love kids, but I also recognize that things could be better for mine.

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.