During the quiet hours of the night she lay awake considering ideas.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Across the border in Mexico, the quiet town of Naco receives a steady flow of border crossers who have been arrested and deported from the U.S.side.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Tourism is slowly growing. Paul Piaia came from Australia not just to enjoy the quiet beaches but also to race in the Tour De Timor, the country's first international cross country bicycle race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us!", she might have been writing about the women and men who tended her kitchen hearth and household grounds in the quiet country town of Amherst, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Like many songs on the album "Quiet Nights" it is a good example of Diana Krall's soft and smoky voice.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The garden was quiet. The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

She says this monument is a quiet place for people to come to terms with loss caused by the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

At the time,her husband had said: "When I am gone,lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

A new mother,for example, quickly learns to try to sleep when her baby is quiet, even in the middle of the day.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The universe had not been quiet and unchanging since the beginning of time, as many people had thought.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

The places under the care of the National Park Service are not all refuges of peace and quiet,however.

VOA: special.2009.09.28