Vries

Vries may refer to:

  • Sherwin Vries (born 1980), South African sprinter
  • Vries, Drenthe, a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe

Famous quotes containing the word vries:

    Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
    —Peter De Vries (20th century)

    And she, by passion once demented
    MThat woman out of Botticelli—
    She brews and bottles, unfermented,
    The stupid and abiding jelly.
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)

    When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)