“As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.”

— Mitch Albom

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American author 1958

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“All children, except one, grow up.”

J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan

Source: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1
Context: All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

“measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

50
50 Poems (1940)

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

Piers Anthony (1934) English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres

“This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

“For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

For All We Have and Are http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/forall.html, Stanza 1 (1914). <br class="br">Other works