Last week we ran through a few of The Walking Dead‘s best quotes as an entire series but today we’re focusing on just one season: the first.
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Airing in late 2010, the first season of The Walking Dead was only six episodes. Rick Grimes awoke in a hospital bed to find out the entire world had collapsed while he recovered from a serious gun shot wound. He would escape his room to find all sorts of horrors waiting around every corner. It was the days when The Walking Dead truly instilled horrifying suspense into its viewers.
So, let’s run through the best and most memorable lines of The Walking Dead‘s first season. If your favorite isn’t on the list, be sure to leave it on the comment section below!
The Living
In the early days of The Walking Dead, sheriff Rick Grimes had a very strong set or morals. He held on to his humanity for as long as he could which means back in the day, you didn’t just kill someone who had been bitten.
Okay, it may have been a combination of not completely understanding the virus and morals, but still – Rick would not let anyone kill an infected Jim.
“We don’t kill the living,” Rick said as he stopped Daryl from striking Jim with an ax. A bit ironic, seeing as Rick was willing to kill Daryl to stop him from killing someone else.
Rick has clearly come a long way from these days.
It Belongs To The Dead
Aside from humanity, Rick also held on to hope for a long time.
After being more or less saved by Morgan Jones after escaping the hospital, Rick tried every day to get in touch with the Georgia man and his son. After seeing what Atlanta had become, Rick wanted to warn Morgan about the dangers that lay in the fallen city.
“Do not enter the city,” Rick said over the walkie-talkie. “It belongs to the dead now.”
Second Chance
Rick Grimes was both ecstatic and relieved to find his family alive.
The man who now lives by the phrase, “I don’t take chances anymore,” had to come up with that mantra somewhere along the way. Reuniting with his wife and son was about as lucky as it gets in the apocalypse and the sheriff realized that and wanted to take full advantage of it.
“Maybe we got a second chance,” Rick said to Lori in the series’ third episode. “Not many people get that.”
The Fall
Glenn’s sense of humor was injected into The Walking Dead from the moment he arrived on our television screens.
As he and Rick fled a massive horde of walkers in the Atlanta streets, they found themselves climbing a ladder to the top of a building – an ability walkers were no longer capable of despite being bottled up at the bottom. Rick looked down, terrified of being ripped to shreds by the undead having never found his family and Glenn shared the same thought.
“Bright side, it’ll be the fall that kills us,” Glenn said. “I’m a glass half full kinda guy.”
Hey, Dumbass
To end the very first (and on of the best) episode of The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes found himself trapped in a tank in the streets of Atlanta completely surrounded by walkers with no presumable way out…
…until Glenn Rhee came into the picture over the tank’s radio system with one of the most unforgettable lines of the entire series.
We wouldn’t see Glenn until the next episode but The Walking Dead‘s pilot ended with a glimmer of hope and fun among all of its cynical chaos.
“Hey, dumbass!” Glenn called out to the man who would become his leader. “Yeah, you in the tank! Cozy in there?”
