Whats a good opening sentence to an essay for an autobiography about myself?

Question

It has to be 16 pages but the first page has to be about the day i was born and my life as an infant. I cannot think of a sentence to start it off. Im a freshman so the sentence has to be kinda intellegent lol

Answer 1

It was a cool/cold/warm day and the sun/moon/clouds was just creeping above the horizon, when I peeped out on the world that I was to inherit.

Answer 2

I was born a poor "insert ethnicity here" child. Or " It was a dark and stormy night"