Quotes About Legend

A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

The Red Sword of Heroes looks a proper mess

What is the song of ice and fire?" "It's no song I've ever heard.

The wolves will come again," said Jojen solemnly.

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

Who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him.

Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.

And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. "For dragons fly.

Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi,' the Lysene girl said. 'Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the older moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.

I am the ghost in Harrenhal.

You can't all be the greatest knight in England." "Why not?" Gawain smiled suddenly. "It makes for better stories that way.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

But that is another story.

And thereby hangs a tale.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

A tale never loses in the telling.

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.