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I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

Edward Zwick

Children

Country

Destruction

Nothing

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

Rob Zombie

Country

Road

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

Zinedine Zidane

Country

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Zinedine Zidane

Father

Country

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Khaleda Zia

Country

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Country

Russia

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

Moon Unit Zappa

Mother

Country

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.