Beetle Quote by Stephen Craig

“Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.”

— Donald O'Donovan

“A large grey stone lay in the centre of the grass and he stared moodily at it or watched the great snails. They seemed…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”

— William Shakespeare

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Above the rustic stone fireplace was a deer's head-but not an everyday deer's head. This mangy thing surveyed the room with a huge toothy…

— Charlotte McPherren

“A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow,…

— Emily Dickinson

“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”

— Ed Park

“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“A muscular hulking figure walked steadfastly toward her, naked yet festooned with plant life. Every inch of the being was covered with leaves and…

— Pete Kahle

“Bugs, Thumper, Roger, Peter, Velveteen. I name them after their storied counterparts and then I try my best to brain them. Because they remind…

— Jonathan Tropper

“It was a spider as large as a wagon wheel, black as slate.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had cut off his wings.”

— George R.R. Martin