Rick Grimes quotes from The Walking Dead

Shane Walsh

He knows where the farm is, Rick. Where we are-- he knows. Say he finds his way back to his people... (pulls out his glock)

Rick Grimes

Shane, no! [pushes him] Not now. Just not now!

Shane Walsh

Well, when, Rick? When?

Rick Grimes

When I've had a chance to think about it.

Don't let him kill me. Please don't.

Rick

Shut up! We're going back. It's a man's life. I need a night to think it through.

Shane Walsh

You're gonna bring this piece of garbage... this piece of garbage who - he shot at you, Rick. He ran with men who tried to kill you. You gonna bring him back to where Lori sleeps? To where Carl sleeps?

Rick Grimes

He'll be locked up in the barn, unless you bust it open.

Shane Walsh

Oh, don't start that shit.

Rick Grimes

I'm taking the night.

Shane Walsh

Man, you take that... you think on it, Rick. Keep struggling with it. It ain't hard, man. The right choice is the one that keeps us alive. It's always the same with you. It's like the first moment - it's whenever you're put to the test.

Rick Grimes

Stop acting like you know the way ahead, like you know the rules. There are no rules, man. We're lost.

Shane Walsh

No-no-no, man. I know exactly where I am.

Rick Grimes

You don't know shit anymore.

Shane Walsh

I don't think you can do it, Rick.

Rick Grimes

It's my call, man.

Shane Walsh

I don't think you can keep them safe.

Shane Walsh

Rick, you can't just be the good guy and expect to live. Okay? Not anymore.

Rick Grimes

I'm not the good guy anymore.

Rick Grimes

What happened to Dale had nothing to do with you.

Carl Grimes

He died, Dad.

Rick Grimes

Yeah, feels like there's a lot of that going around. That's why I need you. No more kid stuff. I wish you could have the childhood I had, but that's not gonna happen. People are gonna die. I'm gonna die. Mom... There's no way you can ever be ready for it. I try to be, but I can't. Best we can do now is avoid it as long we can, keep one step ahead. I wish I had somethin' better to say - somethin' more profound. My father was good like that. But I'm tired, son.

Shane Walsh

We tried to kill each other, man. What did you think, we gonna forget about it all, we're gonna ride off into the sunset together?

Rick Grimes

You're gonna kill me in cold blood? Screw my wife? Have my children - my children - call you daddy? Is that what you want? That life won't be worth a damn. I know you. You won't be able to live with this.

Shane Walsh

What you know about what I can live with? You got no idea what I can live with, what I live with!

Rick Grimes

We're all infected.

Daryl Dixon

What?

Rick Grimes

At the C.D.C., Jenner told me. Whatever it is, we all carry it.

Carol Peletier

And you never said anything?

Rick Grimes

Would it have made a difference?

Glenn Rhee

You knew this whole time?

Rick Grimes

How could I have known for sure? You saw how crazy that mo-

Glenn Rhee

That is not your call. Okay, when I found about the Walkers in the barn, I told, for the good of everyone.

Rick Grimes

Well, I thought it best that people didn't know.

Maggie Greene

I'm not sitting here, waiting for another herd to blow through. We need to move, now.

Rick Grimes

No one is going anywhere.

Carol Peletier

Do something.

Rick Grimes

I am doing something! I'm keeping this group together. Alive! I've been doing that all along, no matter what; I didn't ask for this! I killed my best friend for you people, for Christ sake! You saw how he was like. How he pushed me, how he compromised us, how he threatened us. He staged the whole Randall thing, led me out to put a bullet in my back. He gave me no choice! He was my friend, but he came after me. My hands are clean. Maybe you people are better off without me. Go ahead. I say there's a place for us, but maybe... maybe it's just another pipe dream. Maybe... Maybe I'm fooling myself again. Why don't... why don't you go out and find out yourself. Send me a postcard! Go on, there's the door. You can do better. Let's see how far you get. No takers? Fine. But get one thing straight. You're staying, this isn't a democracy anymore.

Lori Grimes

The baby is about to be here and we need to talk-

Rick Grimes

About what?

Lori Grimes

Things. We've been avoiding them-

Rick Grimes

You want to talk? Talk to Hershel. I'm doing stuff, Lori. Thangs.

It was coming at me, bro.

Rick Grimes

Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. Shit happens.

I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer.

Rick Grimes

Either way, I don't pretend to be a governor.

Carl Grimes

You didn't wake me up.

Rick Grimes

I knew you were up all night reading comics with a flashlight.

Rick Grimes

Wasn't much use without my gun.

Daryl Dixon

No, you were. All this time you've taking off, you earned it. We wouldn't be here without you.

Rick Grimes

It was all of us.

Daryl Dixon

No, it was you first. You gonna help us figure this out?

Rick Grimes

I screwed up too many times. Those calls you gotta make, I start down that road... I almost lost my boy - who he was. Whatever else this place needs, I'm here for it.

Daryl Dixon

Like I said, you earned it. But for what it's worth, you see mistakes. I see when the shit hits, you're standing there with a shovel.

Hershel Greene

We just went through something terrible. Everything we've been working so hard to keep out, it found its way in.

Rick Grimes

No. It's always there.

Rick Grimes

Did you think it was right? Letting those kids come back with us?

Carol Peletier

I think it was the humane thing to do.

Rick Grimes

But did you think it was right?

Carol Peletier

Look at us. Digging through drawers, hoping that... a couple of cough drops and some disinfectant might be the difference between dying and living a couple of more hours. If they're strong enough to help us survive this thing, yeah, I think you made the right call.

Rick Grimes

And if they're not?

Carol Peletier

Let's hope they are.

Carol Peletier

Rick... I killed two people and you haven't said a word about it.

Rick Grimes

What do you want me to say?

Carol Peletier

It's not about what you say. It's about facing reality. It always comes for us and over and over again we face it so that we can live.

Rick Grimes

So that we can live.

Carol Peletier

That's right. That's what it always comes down to.

Rick! Come down here. We need to talk.

Rick Grimes

It's not up to me. There's a council now. They run this place.

Is Hershel on the council? What about Michonne? She on the council, too?

Rick Grimes

I don't make decisions anymore.

You're making the decisions today, Rick. Come down here. Let's have that talk.