Rick Grimes quotes from The Walking Dead

Rick Grimes

[to Jenner] You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do but you don't. It's only a matter of time. There's too many of those things. My boy, my wife, I never told them what I really thought. I never even hinted, just, just kept it in, kept us moving, kept it in, kept us moving.

Rick Grimes

Last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to admire a view, my son got shot. I try not to mix it up with the almighty anymore.

Rick Grimes

You want to kill me, you're going to have to do better than that wrench.

Rick Grimes

Dale could... could get under your skin. He sure got under mine, because he wasn't afraid to say exactly what he thought, how he felt. That kind of honesty is rare and brave. Whenever I'd make a decision, I'd look at Dale. He'd be looking back at me with that look he had. We've all seen it one time or another. I couldn't always read him, but he could read us. He saw people for who they were. He knew things about us... the truth... who we really are. In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honor him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives... our safety... our future. We're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong. From now on... we're gonna do it his way. That is how we honor Dale.

Rick Grimes

[to Lori] I killed him. I killed Shane. He came at me. He killed Randall to get me in the woods. He planned it. I had - I had no choice. I gave him every chance... and he kept leading me further out. He pushed me, and I let him. After awhile, I knew - I knew what he was doing, what he was up to. And I kept going. I didn't stop. I could have, but... I just wanted it over. Dogging me every step of the way. Acting like I stole you and Carl, like... like I was in the way. I just wanted it over. I wanted him dead. I killed him. He turned. That's how I knew Jenner was right. Carl put him down.

Rick Grimes

Don't look back, Carl. Just keep walking.

Rick Grimes

[to Gareth] There's a compound bow and a machete with a red handle. That's what I'm gonna use to kill you.

Rick Grimes

We won't get weak. That's not in us anymore. We'll make it work. And if they can't make it then we'll just take this place.

Rick Grimes

You ever heard about the broken window theory? Boils down to this-- you keep the windows intact, you keep society intact.

Rick Grimes

I know this sounds insane, but this is an insane world. We have to come for them before they come for us, it's that simple.

Rick Grimes

I was wrong. I thought after living behind these walls for so long that maybe they couldn't learn. But today I saw what they could do, what we could do, if we work together. We'll rebuild the walls. We'll expand the walls. There will be more. There's gotta be more. Everything Deanna was talking about is possible. It's all possible. I see that now. When I was out there with them when it was over when I knew we had this place again I had this feeling. It took me a while to remember what it was because I haven't felt it since before I woke up in that hospital bed. I want to show you the new world, Carl. I want to make it a reality for you. Please, Carl let me show you. Plea-- please, son, don't die.

Rick Grimes

What's the difference between men and women?

Shane Walsh

Is this a joke?

Rick Grimes

No, serious.

Shane Walsh

Never met a woman who knew how to turn off a light. Born thinking the switch only goes one way: on. Come home, house all lit up, and my job, you see, apparently because my chromosomes happen to be different is that I gotta walk through that house and turn off every single light this chick left on.

Rick Grimes

Is that right?

Shane Walsh

Yeah, baby. Oh Reverend Shane is a-preachin' to ya now, boy. Then this same chick, mind ya, she'll bitch about, uh, Global Warming. This is where Reverend Shane wants to quote from the Guy Gospel and say, "Uh, darlin' maybe if you and every other pair of boobs on this planet could just figure out that the light switch, see, goes both ways, maybe we wouldn't have so much Global Warming?"

Rick Grimes

You say that?

Shane Walsh

The polite version. Still, that earns me this look of loathing you would not believe and that's when the Exorcist voice pops out "You sound just like my damn Father! Always yellin' about the power bill and tellin' me to turn off the damn lights!"

Rick Grimes

What do you say to that?

Shane Walsh

I know what I want to say. What I want to say, "Bitch, you mean to tell me you've been hearing this your entire life and you are still too damn stupid to learn how to turn off a switch?"

Merle Dixon

Who the hell are you, man?!

Rick Grimes

Officer Friendly. Look here, Merle. Things are different now. There are no niggers anymore. No dumb-as-shit, inbred white-trash fools either. Only dark meat and white meat. There's us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart.

Merle Dixon

Screw you, man.

Rick Grimes

I can see you make a habit of missing the point.

Merle Dixon

Yeah? Well, screw you twice.

Rick Grimes

Ought to be polite to a man with a gun. [cocks gun] Only common sense.

Merle Dixon

You wouldn't. You're a cop.

Rick Grimes

All I am anymore is a man looking for his wife and son. Anybody that gets in the way of that is gonna lose. I'll give you a moment to think about that.

Rick Grimes

[to Jenner, on being given the chance to survive] I'm grateful.

Edwin Jenner

The day will come when you won't be.

Shane Walsh

These things ain't sick! They're not people! THEY'RE DEAD!! All they do, THEY KILL!! These things right here! they're the things that killed Amy! They killed Otis!! They're gonna kill all of us.

Rick Grimes

Shane, STOP!!

Shane Walsh

Hey, Hershel. Man, let me ask you something. could a living, breathing person, could they walk away from this?

Rick Grimes

STOP IT!!

Shane Walsh

That's 3 rounds in the chest. Someone who's a alive, could they just take that?!! Why is it still coming?!!

Shane Walsh

That's its heart, its lungs!! Why is it still coming?!!

Rick Grimes

Shane, enough!!

Shane Walsh

Yeah, you're right, man. That is enough.

Shane Walsh

Enough risking our lives for a little girl who's GONE!!! Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us!! Enough! Rick, it ain't like it was before!! Now, if y'all wanna live, if y'all wanna survive, you gotta fight for it!! I'm talking about fighting, right here!! Right now!!