Quotes About Patience

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.

Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

The gardener digs a hole in the ground and throws in a seed and waters it and he hopes something comes up. Now, he knows generally what's going to come up. He knows whether he planted an acorn for an oak tree or a tomato plant to get some tomatoes for the summer. But there's a lot of details he doesn't know. It may not grow at all. It may grow a little and then die. It may go wild. A chipmunk may eat it during the night. You don't know.

Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are

Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.

She had been making for Riverrun for years, it seemed, without ever getting there.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale. It may be a year before you see another.

A snail hides in his shell.

What good is this, i ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

I wait with sullen resignation," said Tuf, unmoving.

Another day done"—he would sigh—"and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh, Dunk?

The time to speak of the cold is not when we are standing put in it.

Do not despair, Lord Snow. Despair is a weapon of the enemy, whose name may not be spoken.

A siege is a deadly dull.

will be along next year in A Dance with Dragon...

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.