In school in Portugal, we had English lessons for eight…

All the years I watched Spongebob, I am still unaware of his age.

— Anonymous

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I have already taken English lessons in the past because my sister has lived in England for several years and her husband is English.

— Edouard Mendy

Some guys in the team have asked me whether I had English lessons before I came to Middlesbrough. I told them that I like…

— Victor Valdes

“Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English…

— Barack Obama

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself.…

— Andrew Garfield

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually…

— Matthew Underwood

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I…

— Vanessa Carlton

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

— Jim Coleman

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music…

— Brian Austin Green

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and…

— Marcia Gay Harden

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

— Andrew Garfield

I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

— Billy Joel