Quotes About Legacy

Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Dragons die." She stood on her toes to kiss him lightly on an unshaven cheek. "But so do dragonslayers.

Jaehaerys the Conciliator would sit the Iron Throne for fifty-five years, and many a knight would wear a white cloak in his service during that long reign, more than any other monarch could boast. But it was rightly said that never did any Targaryen possess a Kingsguard who could equal the boy king's first Seven.

Daella is sweet and kind and gentle. She has such a tender heart. Give me time, and I will find a lord to cherish her. Not every Targaryen needs to wield a sword and ride a dragon.

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.

George R.R. Martin

I will not deny that Bael's exploit inspired mine own . . . but I did not steal either of your sisters that I recall. Bael wrote his own songs, and lived them. I only sing the songs that better men have made.

If life was worthless, what was death?

You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us.

My mother told me that dead men don't sing

I'll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker. There's tens o'thousands dead on your account.

Jaime: "Bir el kaybettim, bir baba, bir o?ul, bir k?z karde?, bir sevgili ve çok yak?nda bir erkek karde? kaybedece?im. Ve bana hâlâ Lannister Hanedan?'n?n bu sava?? kazand???n? söylüyorlar.

Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak … but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.

George R.R. Martin

Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.

My uncle Maegor was cruel," Alysanne was heard to say, "but age is crueler.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

One day the singers will make all of us immortal.

As the next thousand years unfold—and the thousands beyond that—many more will be born, and live, and die. And history will continue to unfold, as strange and complex and compelling as what my humble pen was able to lay before you

No hatchlings can hope to stand against Vermithor and Dreamfyre." "And Silverwing?" asked Rhaena. "Our sister—" "—had no part in this. I will not put her at risk." The Queen in the East smiled then. "She is Rhaenys and I am Visenya. I have never thought otherwise.

The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.