Rick Grimes Quotes

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Rick Grimes: 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 you... Why don't you go 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.
Rick Grimes: No takers? Fine. But get one thing straight... you're staying. This isn't a democracy anymore.

Rick Grimes: You know, what you did for me, for my baby, while I was... working things out... thank you.
Daryl Dixon: It's what we do.

My mercy prevails over my wrath

My mercy... prevails over my wrath.

Rick Grimes: Get me Negan.
Negan: Who the hell is asking?
Rick Grimes: It's Rick Grimes.
Negan: Ricky, look at you calling me up. You want to tell me where you are, so we can do this face to face.
Rick Grimes: Carl's dead. He wrote letters. He wrote one to you. He asked you to stop. He asked me to stop. He asked us for peace. But it's too late for that. Even if we wanted to deal now, it doesn't matter. I'm going to kill you.
Negan: How did it happen?
Rick Grimes: What?
Negan: How did he die? Was it us? Was it the grenades... the fire?
Rick Grimes: It wasn't you! Carl went out to help someone and he got bit.
Negan: Goddamn it. Shit, I am... I am sorry. You know I wanted him to be part of things. I had plans. That kid... that kid was the future.
Rick Grimes: The only future is one where you're dead.
Negan: The hell are you doing Rick? Why are you fighting? Why are you making this so hard? Carl is dead because of you. Because you couldn't leave shit well enough alone. I mean maybe he would have died some other way. Any one of us can get our ticket punched at any second. But in this case... in this case, he is dead because of you. Because you weren't there to stop him from doing something stupid. You set this coarse Rick. Who's next?
Rick Grimes: You are!
Negan: No, that someone is. You see... I stop people from dying. I am the answer. Now, it may have taken a hard lesson for you to hear it, but you should hear it now. It's time. Do not let anymore of your shit decisions cost you to lose anyone else you love. That garbage... that sticks with you forever. Just like Carl will. Hell, I'm feeling it now and I'm going to be feeling it for a while. You could have just let me save all of you. I mean that's why I killed your friends in the first place. So that you can sit there and say that you're going to kill me, but you won't. You failed. You failed as a leader and most of all Rick, you failed as a father. Just... give up. Give up because you have already lost.

Rick Grimes: Was Negan in that building last night, or was he here?
Primo: Both. I'm Negan, shithead. Now, there's a whole world of fun we can talk about, so let's have a chat.
Rick Grimes: I'm sorry it had to come to this.

Rick Grimes: Morgan... Michonne did steal that protein bar.
Morgan Jones: Oh, I know.

Rick Grimes: I'm gonna kill you.
Negan: What? I didn't quite catch that, you're gonna have to speak up.
Rick Grimes: Not today, not tomorrow, but I'm gonna kill you.

Rick Grimes: I'm gonna kill you.
Negan: What? I didn't quite catch that, you're gonna have to speak up.
Rick Grimes: Not today, not tomorrow, but I'm gonna kill you.

Rick Grimes: Do you think Sasha did that herself?
Maggie Greene: I don't know how, but I know she did.
Rick Grimes: She gave us a chance. You did, you made the right decision to come.
Maggie Greene: The decision was made a long time ago. Before any of us knew each other. When we were all strangers, who would have just passed each other on the street before the world ended. And now we mean everything to each other. You were in trouble, you were trapped. Glenn didn't know you, but he helped you. He put himself in danger for you, and that started it all. From Atlanta, to my Daddy's farm, to the prison, to here. To this moment now, not as strangers, as family. Because Glenn chose to be there for you, that day, a long time ago, that was the decision that changed everything. It started with both of you, and it just grew, to all of us, to sacrifice for each other, to suffer, to stand, to grieve, to give, to love, to live, to fight for each other. Glenn made the decision Rick, I was just following his lead.

Rick Grimes: Why the pictures?
Jadis: To sculpt you. After.
Rick Grimes: After what?

Morgan Jones: Rick?
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: You still alive?
Negan: I'm a goddamn cat.

Rick Grimes: Just tell me. Why'd you save me?
Morgan: Because my son was there.

Michonne: The famous Rick Grimes!
Rick Grimes: God dam it!, don't you start too.
Michonne: It's sweet, just don't let it get to your head.
Rick Grimes: No, not today, that's for sure.
Michonne: Yeah, I don't envy Maggie right now.
Rick Grimes: No.
Michonne: Rick, seeing his name on the wall. Did we do the right thing, sometimes I think maybe we should've just killed him?
Rick Grimes: I think about it a lot. But killing him wouldn't have changed what we'd have seen today. They don't want Negan, they want food.
Michonne: You don't know that Rick, not for sure. I've been thinking, maybe we need an agreement between all the communities, like: "This is what we believe; This is how we treat each other; And this is what happens when we don't."
Rick Grimes: Yeah. It's good. It feels like the right time.
Michonne: We always couldn't before because we were always running and fighting.
Rick Grimes: It's smart, building up something like that, it could pull people closer together. You know Daryl's not happy, he's got me worried about things breaking down.
Michonne: He wouldn't say something of it, if it wasn't important. He cares.
Rick Grimes: Too much sometimes.
Michonne: Hey, if he's worried there's a reason. So what do we do about it?
Rick Grimes: I think we need to fix that bridge.
Michonne: Ok, I'll get the people to agree a charter.
Rick Grimes: Charter? Not a constitution?
Michonne: Carter.
Rick Grimes: Huh, ok. Tomorrow. Ok.
Michonne: Yeah.
Rick Grimes: How did I get so lucky finding you?
Michonne: We both lost enough. It's time we won a little, don't you think?... Ooh, the famous Rick Grimes!

Rick Grimes: No, its the right thing to do. The future belongs to all of us now.
Daryl Dixon: How do they all get this future? And Glenn don't, or Abraham, or Sasha, all the people the Kingdom lost, Hilltop, Oceanside. You ever think about what they want? What they'd do if they could?
Rick Grimes: Yeah I do. I have. For a long time I wanted it too, maybe more than anyone. But killing each other, when the world already belongs to the dead, it's not the way, not anymore.
Daryl Dixon: We should go walk that grid.
Rick Grimes: Daryl.
Rick Grimes: I know you don't agree with everything we're doing here, all I ask is that you try. Do it. Let people see it. And maybe everyone moves past what's happened, to what could happen and maybe, just maybe, it'll be one of the best decisions you ever make. Like not killing a guy, who left your brother, on a rooftop to die.

Rick Grimes: They - they're all dead.
Sasha Williams: Yeah. I know. And it's okay.
Rick Grimes: How can it be okay? How can - How can this be okay?
Sasha Williams: Because you did your part. Like I did mine. Like the others did before us.
Rick Grimes: How?
Sasha Williams: They gave us the strength that we needed. To do what we had to do for the others. And the others draw strength from us. We change each other. We help each other. We make each other better. And it never ends.
Rick Grimes: It feels like it's the ending.
Sasha Williams: Little things do end. But it's never the end of everything. Because we don't die. It's not about you or me or any one of us. It's about all of us. And I don't think it just evens out. I think it always crosses over. Toward the good. Toward the brave. Toward love... Your family - You're not going to find them, because they're not lost. And you are not lost. What you need to do is: wake up.

Deanna Monroe: I want to live. I want this place to stay standing.
Rick Grimes: You need to lead them.
Deanna Monroe: They don't need me. What they need is you.

Rick Grimes: I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that? Do you think we can manage that?
Shane Walsh: Hmm?
Daryl Dixon: Mmm. Yeah.
Rick Grimes: [when Shane lets Daryl go] What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others.

Rick Grimes: Stop it! Stop it right now.
Rick Grimes: You touch them again and I'll kill you.
Deanna Monroe: Damn it, Rick! I said stop.
Rick Grimes: Or what? You gonna kick me out?
Deanna Monroe: Put that gun down, Rick.
Rick Grimes: You still don't get it. None of you do!
Rick Grimes: We know what needs to be done and we do it. We're the ones who live. You, you just sit and plan and hesitate. You pretend like you know when you don't. You wish things weren't what they are. Well, you want to live? You want this place to stay standing? Your way of doing things is done. Things don't get better because you - You want them to. Starting right now, we have to live in the real world. We have to control who lives here.
Deanna Monroe: That's never been more clear to me than it is right now.
Rick Grimes: Me? Me? You...
Rick Grimes: You mean - You mean me? Your way is gonna destroy this place. It's gonna get people killed. It's already gotten people killed. I'm not gonna stand by and just let it happen. If you don't fight, you die. I'm not gonna stand by and...

Rick Grimes: We need to do it sooner or later. Right now they're not watching us. Not worrying about meetings like this. We may need the guns, we may not.
Carol Peletier: We will whatever way it goes.
Rick Grimes: They're the luckiest damn people I ever met. And they just keep getting luckier.
Daryl Dixon: How's that?
Rick Grimes: We're here now.

Aaron: When the world was still the world, I worked for an NGO. Our mission was to deliver medicine and food to the Nigel River Delta. Bad people pointed guns in my face every other week. You're not bad people. You're not going to kill us. And we're definitely not going to kill you.
Rick Grimes: Just because we're good people doesn't mean we won't kill you. If the five of them aren't back in an hour... I'll put a knife in the face of your skull.

Bob Stookey: I just want to say thank you.
Rick Grimes: For what?
Bob Stookey: Before the prison, I didn't know if there were any good people left. I didn't know if anybody was left. You took me in. Because you took people in. It was you, Man. What I said yesterday, I ain't revising it. Even in light, of current events. Nightmares end. They shouldn't end who are you. And that is just this dead man's opinion.

I know... we'll never get things back to the way they used to be. I would've clung to that for you, for Judith, but now she's gone. And you... you're a man now, Carl.

Rick Grimes: I need you to stay here.
Carl Grimes: I will. But, Dad, you can't keep me from it.
Rick Grimes: From what?
Carl Grimes: From what always happens.
Rick Grimes: Yeah. Maybe. But I think it's my job to try.

Rick Grimes: You found them like this?
Tyreese Williams: I came to see Karen... and I saw the blood on the floor. Then I smelled them. Somebody dragged them out here and set them on fire. They killed them and set them on fire!
Tyreese Williams: [Tyreese gets in Rick's face] You're a cop. You find out who did this and you bring 'em to me. You understand? You bring 'em to me!

Carl Grimes: You didn't wake me up.
Rick Grimes: 'Cause I knew you were up all night reading comics with a flashlight.

The Governor: I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer.
Rick Grimes: Either way, I don't pretend to be a governor.
The Governor: I told you, I'm their leader.
Rick Grimes: You're the town drunk who knocked over my fence and ripped up my yard, nothing more.
The Governor: Didn't you ever misjudge someone? Hmm? Andrea told me about your baby. That it might be your partner's. But you're caring for her and I admire that. Restitution for your own lack of insight. For failing to see the devil beside you.
Rick Grimes: Oh, I see him, all right.

Daryl Dixon: He helped us get out of there.
Rick Grimes: Yeah, right after he beat the shit out of you.
Merle Dixon: Hey, we both took our licks, man.
Daryl Dixon: Jackass.

Lori Grimes: We need to talk about...
Rick Grimes: About what?
Lori Grimes: Things. We've been avoiding...
Rick Grimes: You know what? You want to talk, talk to Hershel. I'm doing stuff, Lori. Things, isn't that enough? I'm still here.
Lori Grimes: You're right. I'm sorry.

Shane Walsh: These things ain't sick. They're not people. They're dead. Ain't gonna feel nothing for them 'cause 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, shut up!
Shane Walsh: Hey, Hershel, man, let me ask you something. Could a living breathing person, could they walk away from this?
Rick Grimes: No! Stop it!
Shane Walsh: That's three rounds in the chest. Could someone who's 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.

Daryl Dixon: You go looking for aspirin, do what you need to do.
Daryl Dixon: Someone needs to have some balls to take care of this damn problem!
Shane Walsh: Hey, hey, hey!
Rick Grimes: We don't kill the living.
Daryl Dixon: That's funny coming from a man who just put a gun to my head.