FAMOUS OPENING SENTENCES

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

You don't know about me without you have a read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
The Stranger by Albert Camus

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
From The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson*

*This is generally considered the most famous sentence in the English language.