Quotes About Legacy

I tell you this—Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm's End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest." He looked at Jaime defiantly. "I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat.

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.

I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Valar Morghulis- All men must die

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

Remember who you are, Daenerys, ... The dragons know. Do you? - Quaithe

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.

Let no man think that the fire of the Targaryens did not burn in his veins.

Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth. Whatever he chose ...

He is not my father. The thought leapt unbidden to Jon's mind. Lord Eddard Stark is my father. I will not forget him, no matter how many swords they give me. Yet he could scarcely tell Lord Mormont that it was another man's sword he dreamt of...

valar morghulis valar doeharis

Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well—soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.

Valar morghulis. - Valar dohaeris. (c) George R. Martin -- All men must die. - All men must serve.

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

We came here to be free of Old Valyria, and your Targaryens are Valyrian to the bone.

You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.